Trivia Bits 28 August

 

• Internationally acclaimed singer Edith Piaf was French.
• The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant accident occurred in 1986.
• If a sporting team comes last in a sporting event, they are awarded the fictitious “spoon” named the The Wooden Spoon.
• The largest salt lake in the world is Lake Eyre in Australia.
• India was called by US author Mark Twain the mother of history, grandmother of legend and great-grandmother of tradition.
• The Mediterranean island of Corsica belongs to France.
• The expression to take with a grain of salt means to believe in part only and to have reservations.
• Tum-Tum was the nick name of British monarch Edward VII.
• The tiger is native to the Asian continent.
• Former Australian Queensland Premier Sir Jo Bjelke-Petersen invented the rubber cricket bat.