Fun Facts

The following pages are pure trivia!

1. Trivia

2. Firsts

3. US Presidents

4. South African firsts and inventions

Trivia was a Roman goddess to whom sacrifices were offered at crossroads. Because travellers often engaged in idle gossip at crossroads, Trivia’s name (referring to three crossroads coming together) came to be associated with the sort of information exchanged in some places. (‘This Book’ Mitchell Symons 2004 Random House South Africa (Pty Ltd) 

‘A smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing’ Charles Dickens

 ‘It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated’ Alec Bourne

 ‘There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge’ Bertrand Russell

 ‘If an idea’s worth having once, it’s worth having twice’ Sir Tom Stoppard