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NZ PROFESSIONAL BURGLAR Alan Tremain Adams has notched up 439 convictions. He commenced his trade at the age of 12. Be glad that you don’t live in Palmerston North.

DEMOCRACY is a process by which the people are free to chose the person who will get the blame

THE BAN ON English soccer clubs from the European Cup due to ‘hooliganism’ was finally lifted in April 1989.

ONE MILLION tiny meteoroids hit the earth every 24 hours. Equalling 30,000 tonnes of this space dust landing every year.

IN A GLOBAL INDEX of ninety nine countries NZ came 2nd (after Norway) in Open Government and 3rd in Absence of Corruption.

THE FIRST video tape was demonstrated in Chicago on April 14th 1956

GOOGLE has digitalised 2.5 million books containing an estimated 500 billion words.

SMALL COUNTRY SCHOOLS are closing on average of one every six weeks. Over the last ten years eighty seven small schools have closed.

THE RED BARON, Manfred von Richthofen was finally shot down and killed on April 21st 1918. He had shot down eight planes, Competing claims for his demise were lodged by a Canadian airman, the gunner of a British plane and ground artillery

MORE THAN 60 new nuclear power plants are being constructed around the world. Most are in China, South Korea and Russia. 160 more are currently on the drawing boards and 320 more proposed.

ITALIAN DICTATOR Mussolini invaded Albania on April 13th 1939

A SYNONYM is the word you use when you can’t spell the word you first thought of.

McDONALD’S opened it’s first burger restaurant on April 15th 1955

GETTING OLD is when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it

EARTH’S MAGNETIC FIELD has been weakening since it was first measured by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1836 by an average of 5% per century. Recently accelerating to 7% per century.

‘ALL YOU NEED in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure’ – Mark Twain who died on April 21st 1910

THE FIRST decimal coins were distributed in Britain on April 23rd 1968. Full decimalisation was completed in1971.

BRITISH SCIENTIST Francis Crick and American biologist James Watson, working in the Cavendish Laboratories at Cambridge University, published their first paper on the make up of DNA on April 25th 1953

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