Trivia Bits 28 October

 

• Canada declared national beauty contests cancelled as of 1992, claiming they were degrading to women.
• The alleged assassin of John F Kennedy was Lee Harvey Oswald.
• The fictional character Robert Langdon from Dan Brown's novels was said to wear a Mickey Mouse watch as a reminder "to stay young at heart."
• Odds and Ends are odd bits, scraps, remnants and fragments.
• In the Noddy books by Enid Blyton the milkman was Mr Milko.
• Michael Clarke Duncan, best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in The Green Mile worked as a bodyguard for people like Will Smith prior to making it in acting.
• The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is rusting as the rocks are oxidizing, in effect, rusting.
• Severnaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the Russian high Arctic, was the last archipelago on Earth to be discovered after being charted in 1930-1932.
• Margaret Mitchell’s book Gone with the Wind was first published in 1936.
• Pagophagia is a craving to eat ice.