Trivia Bits 02 May

 

• The Lepcha people are found in Asia and are among the indigenous peoples of Sikkim, numbering between 30,000 and 50,000 with also being found in western and south-western Bhutan, Tibet, Darjeeling, the Ilam District of eastern Nepal, and in the hills of West Bengal.
• In the medical procedure known as CT Scan, the CT stands for Computed Tomography.
• A positive integer greater than one that is not a prime number is called a composite number.
• Kao Neaw, a Thai sticky rice dish, is often served with ripe mangos and coconut milk as Kao Neaw Mamuan.
• According to the Oxford English Dictionary the longest English word with one syllable is squirreled.
• The unfinished Ca' Rezzonico, a palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice, appears in a early 18th century painting of Venice's Grand Canal by Canaletto.
• It is in the Winter Olympic sport of Curling that you could score an eight-ender.
• The Auditorium Building in Chicago, Illinois, originally the home of the Chicago Civic Opera and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was intended to rival New York City's Metropolitan Opera House upon its opening on December 9, 1889.
• If someone is described as having the DT’s, they are suffering from Delirium Tremens which is an acute episode of delirium that is usually caused by withdrawal from alcohol, first described in 1813.
• Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are known as the Jovian Planets which are large planets that is not primarily composed of rock or other solid matter.
• The South Australian town of Bordertown is 19 km (11.8 miles) from the border of South Australia and Victoria.