Trivia Bits 04 December

 

• Magellan, Galapagos and Little Blue are all types of penguins.
• In poker, two pairs of aces and eights must be present to make up a dead man’s hand.
• A principle or rule applied to the confidentiality of the source of information obtained at a meeting is known as Chatham House Rules.
• The more common name of the contagious disease varicella is Chickenpox.
• Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker.
• The first ATM installed at a London bank was at Barclays Bank in Enfield Town in North London, United Kingdom, on 27 June 1967. This machine was the first in the UK and was used by English comedy actor Reg Varney.
• Cowboys called gauchos some from South America - the term often connotes the 19th century more than the present day; then gauchos made up the majority of the rural population, herding cattle on the vast estancias, and practising hunting as their main economic activities.
• A comma (,) is the punctuation mark used to indicate the smallest interruptions of thought or grammatical construction.
• In Adelaide, South Australia, John Martin’s Rundle Mall store closed in 1998.
• In Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Prospero uses magic to shipwreck Antonio.