Trivia Of The Day April 9

Apple Computer Company's, Apple 1 went on sale in 1976. It retailed for a bizarrely priced $666.66.

The mathematics master of Harrow predicted to the Mathematical Association in a speech on April 9, 1953 that by 2003, schoolchildren would be working out sums on calculating machines and there would be no multiplication tables. He said: "Each maths room will have its calculating machine, and the child on duty for the day will do any calculating needed."

A strand of spider silk long enough to encircle the whole Earth would weigh just over a pound. An inch-thick rope of spider's silk can withstand up to 140,000 pounds of pressure.

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The town of Romney, West Virginia, changed hands between Union and Confederate forces 56 times during the American Civil War.

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