Thursday 19 May 2011

Fascinating Facts

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492Px-Hendrik Ter Brugghen - De Doedelzakspeler

1. Hello wasn’t always the first thing people said when they answered the phone. After the first proper phone service was started in the US in 1878, people said “Ahoy”.

2. Bagpipes were invented in Iran and then brought to Scotland by the Romans.

3. In medieval Japan, it was fashionable for women to sport black teeth.

4. Apollo 11 had 20 seconds of fuel left when it landed.

5. The Chinese used “the fingerprint technique” as a means of identification as far back as AD700.

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Mayflower Barn - Geograph.Org.Uk - 87669
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