More Trivia

The buses that service Hadrian’s Wall have the route number AD122 on them, this was the year Hadrian’s Wall was started to be built, it was completed in AD128.
 
It’s been estimated that nearly 3% of the ice in Antarctic glaciers is penguin urine.
 
The heart of a shrimp is located in its head.
 
At 3,212 feet high, Angel Falls in Venezuela is the highest uninterrupted waterfall in the world.
 
The medical term for a gurgling stomach is “borborygmus”.
 
Stretching for 1,429 miles over an area of approximately 133,000 square miles , the Great Barrier Reef is the world’s biggest single structure made by living organisms.
The reef is located off the coast of Queensland, Australia, in the Coral Sea.
 
Koalas and humans have remarkably similar fingerprints.
 
‘Aulophobia’ is the irrational fear of flutes..
 
 
The ‘Mona Lisa’ painting has no eyebrows, but Leonardo da Vinci did paint them on originally, they were lost to restoration.
 
The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.
 
The word ‘Jiffy’ is an actual unit of time.
The word ‘jiffy’ has been around since at least the late 18th century.
Famed Physical Chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis suggested a ‘jiffy’ should be officially defined as the time it takes for light to travel one centimeter in a vacuum ,about 33.3564 picoseconds.
 
Minus 40 degrees Celsius is exactly the same as minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
 
The Barbie doll’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
 
Octopuses have three hearts.
 
An adult heart pumps about 6,000-7,500 litres (1,500-2,000 gallons) of blood daily. The average adult body contains about five quarts of blood which continually circulates throughout the body.
 
The origin of the word “sinister” reflects a historical bias against left-handed people. It comes from the Latin word for “left,” which was also seen to be unlucky or evil.
 
The original title of Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ was ‘First Impressions’.
 
The teddy bear is named after President Theodore Roosevelt, after he refused to shoot a captured black bear on a hunt, a stuffed-animal maker decided to create a bear and name it after the President.

The origin of the word “sinister” reflects a historical bias against left-handed people. It comes from the Latin word for “left,” which was also seen to be unlucky or evil.

Hence my mum being smacked at school and made to write with her right hand.

"Hence my mum being smacked at school and made to write with her right hand."


Lolly, that happened to my Dad too.
He did everything left handed but could write very well with his right hand.

Its impossible to lose a homing pigeon !

   If your homing pigeon doesn't come back
    youv'e lost a pigeon 

Winifred Atwell , the Caribbean born musician was a big hit
at knees -up parties before rock n roll she became so popular
they had her hands insured for £40,000 , but the insurer insisted
on a clause ........ that she never does the washing up