Thursday, May 17, 2012

TRIVIA BITS 17 MAY

 

  • There have been about 30 films made at or about Alcatraz, the now-closed federal prison island in San Francisco Bay, including The Rock (1996), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), and Escape from Alcatraz (1979).
  • There is a Rocking Stone in Cornwall which, though it weighs many tonnes, can be rocked with ease.
  • There is a seven letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the, there, he, in, rein, her, here, here, ere therein, herein.
  • There is a town in West Virginia USA called Looneyville
  • There is a village near the Somme in France which is simply called Y.
  • There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.
  • There is about 200 times more gold in the worlds oceans, than has been mined in our entire history.
  • There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive an average car four times around the world.
  • There is more pigment in brown eyes than blue.
  • There is no point in England more than 75 miles from the ocean.

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