Trivia Bits 15 December

 

• Besides glove, the name commonly given to a baseball’s player's hand-wear is Mitt.
• The Gopik is the unit of currency of Azerbaijan.
• Australia was first in the world to legislate for the plain packaging of tobacco products.
• The smallest number with eight letters in its name is 13 – thirteen.
• In the movie Star Wars, the Millennium Falcon spacecraft was commanded by Han Solo.
• A spigot is a tap – a faucet, a wooden faucet placed in the bunghole of a cask or the vent plug of a cask.
• Paraburdoo is a town in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The name of the town comes from the Aboriginal word for 'white cockatoo'. It is located 1,536 kilometres north of Perth and 79 kilometres southwest of Tom Price.
• The Macquarie Dictionary’s editorial committee is based in Sydney University, New South Wales.
• Mercedes-Benz is named after Karl Benz and Mercedes Jellinek, a daughter of Daimler Board Member Emil Jellinek.
• The most popular name given to babies born in 2011 in South Australia was Oliver.
• The number four is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced shi the same pronunciation as death.
• The World Solar Challenge starts in Darwin, Northern Territory and finishes in Adelaide, South Australia and is usually run in October and covers 3,021 km (1,877 mi) through the Australian Outback.
• Adelaide’s General Post office (GPO) is on the corner of Franklin and King William Streets and dates from 1860 and enlarged in the 1980s. The outstanding feature is Victoria Tower with its dominant effect on the streetscape.
• The fashion label Louis Vuitton was founded in 1854 on Rue Neuve des Capucines in Paris, France.Iin 1858, Vuitton introduced his flat-bottom trunks with trianon canvas, making them lightweight and airtight thus making transporting of luggage easier as the trunks could be stacked.
• Ablutophobia is the fear of washing.
• The oldest in terms of years that a human has ever lived is 122, 164 days – Jeanne Clament who lived all her life in Arles, France. Her lifespan has been thoroughly documented by scientific study, with more records having been produced to verify her age than for any other case. She is the only person confirmed to have reached over 120 years of age.
• The acronym LAN stands for Local Area Network.
• In January 1901, the first Prime Minister of Australia was Edmund Barton.
• Underneath all that white fur, Polar bears do have black skin.