Did You Know
AUCKLAND super city now pays a million dollars a day in servicing its loan debits – let alone paying any off. Their proposed residential rate increase this year is 7.5%. Anyone for amalgamation?
AN AVERAGE in New Zealand five people a day are seriously injured in car crashes involving alcohol. Last year half of all people caught driving while over the legal limit had been previously apprehended for the same excess.
A MODERN television screen can produce 17 million different colours.
CHINA has 23% of the world’s population but only7% of the world’s arable land.
THIRTY SEVEN million visits were made to NZ libraries during 2014
TOP 2014 Google searches: ‘HOW TO’.; draw, meditate , crochet. ‘WHAT IS’: Ebola, love, glutton. ‘NEWS’: Malaysian air crash, cyclone Lusi, Scottish independence. ‘SPORT’: FIFA World Cup, All Blacks, BBC Football.
2015 IS A leap second year. Half a second will be added to the atomic clock at midnight on June 31st. You may want to stay up to adjust your clocks.
PROVIDING that there’s no pollution once the eye has become accustomed to the dark a person with normal eyesight can see a candle flickering 20 km away.
IRD IDENTIFIED 93 people with incomes in excess of $50 million who had declared personal incomes of less than $70 thousand and so only paid $2,310 in tax.
NEW ZEALAND has 45,000 public servants. Not all are pen pushers, the number include police, professional fire fighters etc.
Over the last three years half of all drink drive convictions have been for repeat offenders.
THE ALL TIME highest selling computer is the Commodore 64. Introduced in 1982 it sold 2 million units a year for an estimated total of 17 million computers.
THE RAINBOW is a continuum of colors. Isaac Newton chose to name seven as at that time the number seven was thought to have magical properties.
TRANSPORT is responsible for 20% of NZ CO2 emissions. Mighty River Power is working towards having its fleet 70% electric powered by 2017. The CEO and Chairman both drive electric cars.
THE INTERNET handles over four hundred million e-mails a minute.
LAST YEAR forty million Toyota Corollas were produced. That is the equivalent of ten for every man, woman and child in New Zealand
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