Did you know

that the person who found a Powerball and a Strike Lotto ticket for 22 Nov draw on the grass verge in Cambridge Road would like to assure the rightful owner that they didn’t win anything.

NEW ZEALAND’S first commercial dairy cows were Ayrshires brought on the Philip Laing on eof the two first immigrant ships to Dunedin

FINGER NAILS grow on average three centimetres a year.

JOHN LENNON was shot dead as he walked in New York by Mark Chapman on December 8th 1980. Chapman offered no reason for the shooting

A DENDOCHRONOLIGIST is a person who uses tree ring patterns as a dating system.

‘A POLITICIAN’S opponents are on the other side of the Chamber and his enemies are in his own camp’ – Mike Moore.

GERMAN physicist Max Plank unveiled his quantum theory on energy in December 1900. The theory upset Isaac Newton’s orderly world while explaining anomalies in physics which others could not account for.

A 750 ML BOTTLE of regular soda, sports drink or fruit juice contained 250 calories and 16 tablespoons of sugar, which would require 50 minutes of running or 8kms of walking to burn off.

A HEALTHY hair follicle can last up to six years

QUITO, capital of Ecuador, is at 2,800 meters above seal level the highest capital city in the world. ( the Rimutaka road summit is 500 meters). Perched on a mountain ridge it is 8km long and only 6km wide.

NO ONE truly knows a nation until he has been inside its jails – Nelson Mandela

IIN DECEMBER 1987 President Ronald Regan and Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to dismantle 2,611 medium and short range nuclear missiles.

NZ PARLIAMENT passed the first of fourteen Factory Acts in 1891 which were described as the ‘fullest Labour code in the world’. These included standards of health and safety and outlawed child labour. Followed in 1900 by an Act establishing a 48 hour week for factory workers.

NEW ZEALAND’S trade with Germany exceeds it’s trade with Britain

CHINA produces one and a half million cars a month.

AN EXPERT is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

WALT DISNEY die at the age of 64 on 15th December 1966
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