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names
  • The most common name in the world is Mohammed
  • The name Wendy was made up for the book ‘Peter Pan’. It came from the author’s friends, whom he called his “fwendy” (friend) Thanx ‘a girl named Ryan’

Napolean Bonaparte
  • After periods of warring and especially after victories, Napoleon would send messengers home to tell of his success and to tell his wife not to wash herself until he got home. He apparently liked the sweat

neckties
  • Neck ties were first worn in Croatia

nerd
  • The word “nerd” was first coined by Dr. Seuss in “If I Ran the Zoo.”

New York
  • Despite the many rat infested slums in New York City, only 311 people are bitten by rats in an average year. But 1,519 residents are bitten annually by other New Yorkers (Unsure but grabbed this and a few more from humourplanet. Apparently true)

New York Times
  • New York Times had the telephone number 1111111111
  • 75,000 trees are cut down each week to print the Sunday edition of the New York Times

New Zealand
  • New Zealand water has 50% of the world’s dolphines, porpoises and whales
  • New Zealand also has the world’s largest insect, the Giant Weta, which is large enough to eat a carrot.

newspaper
  • Less than 30% of people read an entire newspaper
  • The first newspapers were either distributed in China or in Rome where they were made out of stone or metal

Newton, Sir Issac
  • Sir Issac Newton lost 20,000 pounds in the stock markets ($3,000,000 in today’s terms) after he bought the South Sea shares and after the loss, forbade anyone from saying the words “south sea” in his presence

Niagara Falls
  • The bridge across the Niagara Falls began with a kite carrying a line across it
  • It is estimated that the Niagara Falls pour over 5.7 million litres of water a second
  • It takes only 3 minutes for the yearly consumption of coca-cola in the UK to go over the Niagara Falls


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