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Why do golf courses have 18 holes?
There is a delightful story about this that says
that one of the members of St Andrews golf
club in 1858 pointed out that it takes exactly
18 holes to polish off a ffth of a bottle of
scotch, providing he allowed himself one shot
a hole. Therefore a game of golf was fnished
when the scotch ran out. Sadly this is just a
story, St Andrews originally had 22 holes – 11
fairways played both ways. In 1764 two of
the fairways were considered too short and
attached to the others to make 9 and 18
holes. When the original rulebook was drawn
up by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of
St Andrews 18 holes became the norm.
When was the frst e-mail sent?
A man called Ray Tomlinson sent the frst
e-mail in 1972. He was also the man who
thought of using the @ symbol to separate
the name of the user from the name of the
computer.
Why do we drive on the left in
England when the rest of the world
drives on the right?
This is a bit of a trick question as over
50 countries drive on the left including
Commonwealth countries such as Australia,
New Zealand, Pakistan & Jamaica, also Japan
and Indonesia. The custom is thought to
have originated in England during the middle
ages when life was more dangerous. As most
people were right-handed they rode on the
left of the road to leave their sword arms free
in case of any trouble. Napoleon ordered the
French to travel on the right as this was the
traditional side for the French peasantry during
the monarchy: this law was extended to all
territories conquered by him.
These facts come from “Fascinating Facts and
Curious Questions” a book published by Tobar
and available on Amazon.
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Sometimes we stare so long at a
door that is closing that we see too
late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
(Inventor of the Telephone)
Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison (Inventor of the Light Bulb,
motion picture plus over 1,000 other things)
The internet will catastrophically
collapse in 1996.
Robert Metcalfe (Developed the Ethernet)
Footnote: He promised to eat his words if it did
not – he took a printed copy of his column that
predicted the collapse, put it in a blender with
some liquid and then consumed the pulpy mass!
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Quotes from
technology inventors
...and I didn’t mean that!
Ted Walsh, Horse Racing Commentator – ‘This is really a lovely horse. I once rode her mother.’
Harry Carpenter [Oxford-Cambridge boat race] – ‘Ah, isn’t that nice? The wife of the Cambridge
President is kissing the Cox of the Oxford crew.’
Steve Ryder covering the US Masters: ‘Ballesteros felt much better today after a 69 yesterday.’
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Trivia
In 1886 Coca-Cola sold just
9 glasses a day
in its frst year of business...It now employs
92,800 employees
worldwide and there are
now
1.6 billion servings every day.
www.coca-cola.co.uk
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