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Trivia & Amazing Facts [14-1-16]


Trivia & Amazing Facts  
  • Delivery times for Dominoes pizza in Hong Kong is primarily influenced by elevator traffic. Due to a high level of congestion, most of a pizza delivery man's time is spent waiting for and riding elevators
  • All polar bears are left-handed
  • WHAT WAS THE FIRST PUBLICLY TELEVISED SPORTING EVENT? It was a Japanese baseball game, broadcast on September 27, 1931. The Ushigome and Awazi Schuciku Higher Elementary Schools battled it out on the Tozuka Baseball Ground, watched by viewers on 8-by-5-inch screens
  • Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins
  • A swimming pool has banned an elderly customer because they said his body odour was putting off other swimmers. The 66-year-old was a three-times-a-week visitor at the De Zeehond baths in the Dutch town of Rozenburg, but always arrived wearing the same shirt and trousers. Manager Peter van Vierssem said: "The smell was unbearable. We argued with him about it for a whole year. We asked him to wash his clothes and even sent him letters, but nothing helped."The pensioner, who held an annual ticket to the baths, has been banned from the pool for at least a year