Trivia Bits 21 January

 

• The British Library has records of what 46,000 people did on 17 October 2006 in a project that encouraged UK citizens to write diary entries of 100–650 words of what they had done on 17 October 2006, and then upload them to the official website of the initiative.
• Bock's Car was the name of the B-29 Bomber that dropped the Atom Bomb on Nagasaki.
• The Australian state of Tasmania has more visitors per year than its entire population.
• In an orchestra, the Concert Master is the leader of the first violin section.
• The term Al Jazeera effect used to describe the revolutionary impact of Al Jazeera network on Arab world media has been generalized more globally to other forms of new media and is thought to have been first used in 2000 to describe the reduction of government and mainstream media monopoly on information.
• Medium-sized, burrowing, nocturnal mammal native to Africa, the aardvark is the first animal listed in the dictionary.
• A baby rabbit is called a kitten or kindle.
• Dijon Mustard is named after the town of Dijon a city in eastern France, and is the capital of the Côte-d'Or département and of the Burgundy region.
• The Hen and Chicken Islands lie to the east of the North Auckland Peninsula off the coast of northern New Zealand.