Did you know

THAT research has shown that 76% of people eat the chocolate Easter Bunny’s ears first 5% start with the feet and 4% the tail the other 15% eat indiscriminately. How’s that for riveting information?
THAT Bob Marley died at the age of 36 on May 11th 1981
THAT as a percentage of population America has four times more people in prison than China.
THAT books are now being collected for the Annual Martinborough Giant Book Sale. Books you no longer require can be left at the library.
THAT the Syrian city of Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city . It was founded a couple of thousand years before Rome which was founded in 753 BC.in the world
THAT On his 21st birthday on May 13th Stevie Wonder received one million dollars – his childhood earnings. However he had actually earned thirty million up to that date. Somebody had done very nicely.
THAT A recent survey showed that 8% of woman and 23% of men did not read a single book last year.
THAT the reason bagpipers walk while they are playing is that they are trying to get away from the sound.
THAT the Zionist state of Israel was declared by the nation’s 400,00 Jews on 14th May 1948. US President Harry Truman immediately recognised the new nation.
THAT it was published that while pub pokey machines typically return 37% of their profits to the community the Sky City machines only return 2.5%
THAT Australia’s Flying Doctor Service was launched on May 15th 1928
THAT currently world wide considerably more finance is going into constructing renewable energy power than is going into fossil fuels power stations.
THAT a mouse produces it’s first family a mere seven weeks after being born
THAT Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei was the first woman to climb Mount Everest reaching the summit on May 18th 1975
THAT on May 22nd 1972 President Nixon became the first American President to visit the USSR
THAT the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Garma became the first European to reach the Indies by sea when he arrived at Calicut on India’s Malabar Coast on 23rd May 1498. He had left Portugal a whole year earlier.
THAT the Marx brother’s first movie ‘The Coconuts’ premiered in New York on 24th May 1929.
THAT “ History is more or less bunk. We want to live in the present and the only history worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today” Quote from Henry Ford made on 15th May 1916.
THAT the first Le Mans 24 hour road race was held on 27th May 1923. French drivers Lagache and Leonard won the race at an average speed of 96 kph.
THAT the last Model T Ford to be produced, no 15,007,003, rolled off the assembly line on May 31st 1927. In 1908 the first Model Ts cost $850 by 1927 they were selling for $300.