Sunday, December 2, 2012

Trivia Bits 02 December

 

The oldest brick building still standing in South Australia is Walkley Cottage a part of St Mark’s College in North Adelaide. Built in 1839, Walkley cottage now houses the Dean of the college and the Dean's family

The motto posted above the entrances to Nazi concentration camps was Arbeit Macht Frei roughly translated as Work sets you free.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever was written by English Romantic poet John Keats.

Aperitifs served before meals are believed to stimulate the appetite.

ICBM is a acronym standing for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.

If suffering from polyphagia you will experience excessive hunger.

Paris and Brussels became the first cities to be connected by telephone in 1887.

Liquid paper was invented by one of the mother of one of the members of the 1960’s group The Monkees.

Featured in the Michael Endes fantasy novel The Neverending Story, the character Falkor is part of the fictional species Luckdragon.

Francis Drake was the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean in 1573.

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