Classmate Facts # 28 - Did you Know?

1. Apartheid, Atom Bomb, Baby Sit, Barf, Bazooka, Cheeseburger, Crash-Land, Flying Saucer, Gobbledygook - Just some of the words that originated in the 1940s.

2. The first novel sold through a vending machine - At the Paris Metro - Was Murder on the Orient Express.

3. About 30% of Christmas presents bought all over the world are brought using credit cards.

4. Golf is the only sport that has been played on the moon - On 6 February 1971 Alan Shepard hit a golf ball.

5. The largest web bookshop, Amazon.com, stores 2.5 million books.

6. The Nasdaq stock exchange was totally disabled one day in December 1987 when a squirrel burrowed through a telephone line.