TT 13 March 6 - 2008

Did you know #2
1. In 1894, the president of the Royal Society, Lord Kelvin, predicted that radio had no future. The first radio factory was opened five years later. He also predicted that heavier-than-air flying machines were impossible. Today, there are more than one billion radio sets in the world, tuned to more than 33 000 radio stations around the world. The Wright Brother's first flight covered a distance equal to only half the length of the wingspan of a Boeing 747.
2. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
3. The word posh, which denotes luxurious rooms or accomodations, originated when ticket agents in England marked the tickets of travelers going by ship to the Orient. Since there was no air conditioning in those days, it was always better to have a cabin on the shady side of the ship as it passed through the Mediterranean and Suez area. Since the sun is in the south, those with money paid extra to get cabin's on the left, or port, traveling to the Asia, and on the right, or starboard, when returning to Europe. Hence their tickets were marked with the initials for Port Outbound Starboard Homebound, or POSH.
4. At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.
5. You can cut a pie into 8 slices with only 3 movements

6 Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
7 Both humans and Cats have identical regions in the brain responsible for emotion
8 QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern Territories Air Service.
9 Almonds are members of the peach family.
10 Yucatan, as in the peninsula, is from Maya "u" + "u" + "uthaan," meaning "listen to how they speak," what the Maya said when they first heard the Spaniards.
11 Utigardfossen, the highest free-fall waterfall in Norway, drops 850 meter, 2788.7 feet - and is also the third highest in the world
12 Norway has hundreds of fjords, the largest is Sognefjorden , which is 204 Km long (nearly 126 miles)
13 In September 1752 the Julian calendar was replaced with the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain and its American colonies. The Julian calendar was 11 days behind the Gregorian calendar, so 14 September got to follow 2 September on the day of the change. The result was that between 3 and 13 September, absolutely nothing happened!.

Thats enough facts for this week. See other 13 on Thursday here