TRIVIA BITS 24 MAY

 

• When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.
• When a queen bee lays the fertilized eggs that will develop into new queens, only one of the newly laid queens actually survives. The first new queen that emerges from her cell destroys all other queens in their cells and, thereafter, reigns alone.
• When Albert Einstein died, his final words died with him. The nurse at his side didn't understand German.
• When ants find food, they lay down a chemical trail, called a pheromone, so that other ants can find their way from the nest to the food source.
• When Bugs Bunny first appeared in 1935, he was called Happy Rabbit.
• When Catherine de Medici married Henry II of France (1533) she brought forks with her, as well as several master Florentine cooks. Foods never before seen in France were soon being served using utensils instead of fingers or daggers. She is said to have introduced spinach (which "à la Florentine" usually means) as well as aspics, sweetbreads, artichoke hearts, truffles, liver crépinettes, quenelles of poultry, macaroons, ice cream, and zabagliones.
• When cutting a diamond with a laser, graphite dust is formed.
• When driven from a tee, a golf ball travels at over 270 km/h.
• When Europeans first came across a giraffe, they called it a 'Camelopard', believing it to be a cross between a camel and a leopard.
• When food is short a ribbon worm can eat 95% of its own body weight, and still survive.