Did you know

THE oldest piece of space junk is still in orbit is the U.S. satellite Vanguard 1 which was launched in 1958

BRITISH women , over the age of thirty, were first given the vote on February 6th 1917

CIGARETTE adverts were banned on British television on February 8th 1965

TO ESCAPE earth’s gravity it is necessary to obtain an escape velocity speed (ignoring friction) of 40,200 KPH

SOME people see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others a cow to be milked. But few see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon. – Winston Churchill

If ATOMS were magnified to the size of peas a cell would be 0.8 km wide

THERE ARE enough different types of salt in the ocean to cover the land surface on the planet to a depth of 166 metres

SUCCESS consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

THE FIRST woman premier in Australia was Dr Carmen Lawrence who became Premier of Western Australia in 1990.

LAKE Wairarapa is 18km long and 6km wide with a surface area of 7,880 hectares. It has a maximum depth of 2.5 metres

AN OPTOMIST is a person who fills in his crossword in ink

THE FIRST helicopter flight was made by French engineer Etienne Ochmichen who flew from the ground on February 19th 1921. While airborne he still did not know how to keep it stable of control its direction

IT IS NO USE saying ‘we are doing our best’. One has to succeed in doing what is necessary – Winston Churchill.

IF ALL the DNA in a human body was joined together to give one strand, it would be over 300 billion km long: enough to stretch to the moon and back 390,000 times.

THERE ARE 653 km of roads in South Wairarapa . 382km are sealed roads and 271 km unsealed.
Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them just pick themselves up and hurry on as though nothing has happened

MARTIN Luther died of overwork in his birthplace Eisleben on February 18th 1546. He was sixty three and worn out by overwork.

CORNFLAKES for breakfast were first produced for sale by The Battle Creek Toasted Cornflake Company. Corn flakes had been developed thirty years previously by William K Kellogg and his brother Dr John Kellogg as a health food served at their sanatorium.

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