Friday, August 3, 2012

TRIVIA BITS 03 AUGUST

 

  • Au represents Gold in the periodic table.
  • Nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale often an owlet in her pocket.
  • The main ingredient of the dish Lutefisk is Cod.
  • To cook the dish Baba Ganoush, a Levantine dish, is made from eggplant, tahina, garlic and lemon.
  • A speleologist would study Caves.
  • Crab Apple Cove, Maine was the home city to M*A*S*H character Hawkeye.
  • Dendrophobia is the irrational fear of Trees.
  • Mary Poppins said she would stay with the Banks family until the wind changes in the novel by P. L Travers.
  • The salad leaf arugula is better known as Rocket.
  • In America in 1984, the heart of a baboon was used to keep Baby Fae alive for 21 or her 33 days.

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