You Won't Believe This

The number of bacterial species recently identified within an average belly button numbered 2,368.

Around half of those were new to science.

There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.

You Won't Believe This

Mankind shares 50 per cent of the same DNA as a banana, of which seven billion are consumed annually.

!912 Olympics

What was unique about the 1912 Stockholm Summer Games opened by King Gustav V?

Ladybird

Why do we call a ladybird a ladybird? First of all why the 'lady' and secondly why a 'bird'? And if you look up in the OED, the historical dictionary, its first record of the word 'ladybird', you'll find a 1674 glossary of southern English dialect. And the author describes how the dialect word 'bishop' is the southern English term for the little spotted beetle commonly called the Lady cow 'or the Lady-bird.' And then 'ladybug' followed, and eventually 'ladybird' settled. But bot terms are preceded by this 'cow-lady' and 'ladycow' which is even stranger than a ladybird. There is a parallel going back even further of 'God's cow', which may have been the same insect. Neither a bird nor a lady, if you start with the 'bird', there is some idea that it might be an alteration of 'budde', which in Middle English was applied to quite a few different forms of insect. However, it's generally considered that 'bird' was simply a reference to the bug's winged nature and its flying abilities. 'Lady', apparently refers to the seven spots of the Coccinella septempunctata, the common (UK) native ladybird, that is being threatened by the harlequin ladybird. The spots are said to symbolise the seven pains of the Virgin Mary in the RC faith, which involved the flight to Egypt and the crucifixion of Christ. And so 'ladybird' was simply 'Our Lady's bird.'

Henry The Eighth

Blue Whale

The heart of a blue whale weighs about 1,500 lb and it beats between
four and eight times a minute.

Trivia questions

What name connects the winning horses, the Chase at Haydock on the 18th of August 1948 and palace gate Jack at Haydock on the 6th of October 1994?

Who was the first prime minister when the state of Israel was proclaimed in 1948?

A Muslim known as a Hafiz, what would that indicate or tell you about him?

Teaser IV

Teaser III

Teaser II

Teaser

Pop Charity Records

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir’s A Bridge Over You secured the UK’s official Christmas No 1 spot.
Proceeds from the NHS choir’s single will go to health charities including Carers UK and Mind.

Another charity song released by Ferry Aid in 1987 made No 1 in the UK chart. However, what was the name of the song they covered?

Do You Know?

What are Pixy, Alfred and Farmingdale types of?

A Presidential DYK?

Gerald Ford is the only man to become Vice President and President of the USA without being elected to either post.

A fact that you will be itching to know

The flea belongs to the order Siphonaptera of which there are 1600 species.

Middle Ages

DYK?

In the Middle Ages, there was a job named, 'Groom of the King's Close Stool' given to one of his most trusted advisors. The groom wiped the King's bum.
In the Middle Ages, moss wrapped in a napkin was used as a sanitary towel.
In the Middle Ages, women were known to take extensive care of their skin washing their faces every day with urine because of its antiseptic qualities.

True or False?

Thirteen days disappeared when the UK adopted the Gregorian Calendar~ T /F?

An apple, onion and potato all taste the same ~ T /F?

There are in excess of 15,000 different kinds of rice ~ T /F?

Trivia assortment

The Chilean capital of Santiago is named after which saint?

The song, 'being Alive' comes from which Sondheim musical?

Questions III

Complete the saying: 'If you don't ask you don't ... ?

What duo had an 80s hit with Edge of Heaven? 

Which King of the Huns had a brother called Bleda?

What 2001 Disney film is subtitled The Lost Empire?

Which Italian cheese is made from the whey of Mozzarella?

How many minutes are there in two-thirds of an hour?

Which 60s rock musical was written by Rado and Ragni?

In Norse myth, Thrudheim is the realm of which god?

Working with Wikipedia

I was researching for information about Woodstock, Ontario https://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.phptitle=Woodstock,_Ontario&gettingStartedReturn=true#cite_note-3.

I noticed the page contained outdated and incorrect information, and so, having created an account, I proceeded to update the data.