Trivia Bits 16 July

 

Discovered in China in 1963, Lantian Man (pictured) preceded Peking Man by several hundred thousand years.

Picasso said of French post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne that he was like the father of us all.

Located off the coast of Western Australia, Ashmore and Cartier Islands are an uninhabited external territory of Australia consisting of four low-lying tropical islands in two separate reefs, and the 12 nautical mile territorial sea generated by the islands.

In 2013, Australian sportsman Jesse “The Monster” Williams joined the American gridiron team the Seattle Seahawks.

The leopard is found on the continents of Africa and Asia and is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List because it is declining in large parts of its range due to habitat loss and fragmentation, and hunting for trade and pest control.

The island of Öland, located in the Baltic Sea just off the coast of Småland, Sweden, is separated from the mainland by the Kalmar Strait and connected to it by the 6 km Öland Bridge, which opened in 1972.

Family Ties is a United States sitcom that aired from September 22, 1982 until May 14, 1989 reflecting the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s expressed through the relationship between young Republican Alex P. Keaton, played by Michael J. Fox, and his ex-hippie parents, Steven and Elyse Keaton played by Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter-Birney.

Australian professional surfer and model Laura Enever is best known for her sport of surfing and was the ASP Women's World Junior Champion in 2009.

Cupid was the Roman god of love including desire, erotic love, attraction and affection, is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus, and is known in Latin also as Amor ("Love") with his Greek counterpart being Eros.

Chameleons can move their eyes in two different directions at the same time and can reel in food from a distance as far away as more than two and a half times their body lengths.