Sideswipe: Our Sam's murder plot 8 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM 2 minutes to read Flat out An insight from Kiwi actor Sam Neill when he played General John MacArthur in the TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Did you know... 1. Juli Briskman gave the finger to a motorcade carrying Donald Trump when he was President. Trump was so angry he demanded that she be fired, and she was. She was so angry she decided to run for office and defeated the local Republican candidate. 2. Out of 30,000 known edible crops, only 170 crops are grown on a commercially significant scale today and just 3 staple crops (rice, wheat & maize) provide 40 per cent of our daily calories intake.