Friday, April 20, 2012

TRIVIA BITS 20 APRIL

 

  • The Sesame Street characters Bert and Ernie were named after the cop and the taxi driver from the movie “It's a Wonderful Life”.
  • The Seven Hills of Rome are the Palatine (on which the original city was built), the Capitoline, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Caelian, and Aventine.
  • The ship 'QE2' requires 25 litres to move 1 metre.
  • The shortest French word with all five vowels is "oiseau" meaning bird.
  • The Siberian larch accounts for more than 20% of all the worlds trees.
  • The side of a hammer is a cheek.
  • The slash character is called a virgule, or solidus. A URL uses slash characters, not back slash characters.
  • The smallest bone in the body is the stirrup bone.
  • The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 square miles.
  • The smallest star found to date is a neutron star with a diameter of 59 km but a mass of 10 times that of our sun. This star is more commonly known as a black hole,

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