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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Archangel » 03 Jul 2016, 06:25

Dr Frook wrote:5. Parents are worse at telling if their child is lying than complete strangers.



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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 07 Jul 2016, 23:16

1. Stanley Kubrick wanted to film his own version of Pinocchio.


2. English regional words for a small piece of wood under the skin such as "spool", "spile", "speel", "spell", "shiver", "spill" and "splint" are falling out of use in favour of "splinter".


3. Naturalist Chris Packham recommends that you eat tadpoles.


4. Diners spend an average of £2 a head more in restaurants that play Ravel or Tchaikovsky rather than Kajagoogoo or Cher.


5. Nearly two thirds of shoppers who bought women's clothes in the last six months sent at least one item back.


6. You can't change your name to "Count" or "Baron" in Germany.


7. Male sparrows retaliate when females are unfaithful by providing less food.


8. Despite his miserly reputation, Henry VII spend £3 million in today's money on clothes in two years.


9. Dogs may have evolved separately in Asia and Europe.


10. A dagger entombed alongside Tutankhamun was made with iron from a meteorite.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 09 Jul 2016, 21:37

1. Australia has a town called Humpty Doo.


2. Every winter, great white sharks swim for 30 to 40 days to congregate at a particular spot halfway between Mexico and Hawaii. No-one knows why.


3. People touch their smartphones 2,617 times a day on average.


4. Alcoholics in Ottawa are given wine every hour as part of their treatment.


5. Three per cent of people think you should wait a month after the broadcast of a television programme before discussing the plot in a way that could throw up spoilers.


6. Even in the early 1970s women in the UK frequently had to get a male relative's signature to get a loan.


7. Pillows might easily have 47 different species of fungi living in them.


8. The Chilcot report is four-and-a-half times as long as War and Peace.


9. There was a Victorian comic song called "Tony Blair".


10. Fewer than one in five listed statues in the UK are of women.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 29 Jul 2016, 22:17

1. Mosquitoes carrying malaria are repelled by chickens.


2. The original Bramley apple tree is still alive at the age of 207… but is suffering from a fungal infection.


3. Protestors at the Republican convention were banned from carrying tennis balls but were allowed to carry guns.


4. In some remote areas of Malawi, parents pay a man to have sex with their daughters at the age of 12 or 13.


5. In the run-up to the 2015 general election, Nick Clegg spent weeks recreating a Carly Rae Jepson music video.


6. Whales grieve for friends and relatives and hold vigils.


7. People are selling their mobile phone videos of shootings to licensing companies - for a profit share.


8. Bees spit water at each other in hot weather.


9. It's possible to serve draught beer on a plane - but the physics are tricky.


10. You can't be nominated for a guest actor Emmy if you've been in a show for half of the season or more.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 07 Aug 2016, 08:14

1. Australia has a town called Humpty Doo.


2. Every winter, great white sharks swim for 30 to 40 days to congregate at a particular spot halfway between Mexico and Hawaii. No-one knows why.


3. People touch their smartphones 2,617 times a day on average.


4. Alcoholics in Ottawa are given wine every hour as part of their treatment.


5. Three per cent of people think you should wait a month after the broadcast of a television programme before discussing the plot in a way that could throw up spoilers.


6. Even in the early 1970s women in the UK frequently had to get a male relative's signature to get a loan.


7. Pillows might easily have 47 different species of fungi living in them.


8. The Chilcot report is four-and-a-half times as long as War and Peace.


9. There was a Victorian comic song called "Tony Blair".


10. Fewer than one in five listed statues in the UK are of women.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 10 Aug 2016, 21:35

1. The Norwegian Socialist Left Party wants people to set aside one hour twice a year to hunt slugs.


2. Dogs are more likely to develop limp, hard-to-wag tails the further north they live.


3. The Northern Line is the dirtiest line on the London Underground.


4. It's possible to be arrested for being drunk while riding a mobility scooter.


5. The world record for rope skipping is 671.5 jumps in three minutes.


6. Intelligent people tend to be messier and swear more than others.


7. The Pokemon Go Wikipedia page has more citations than the Wikipedia page for the Bible (or at least it did on Monday).


8. One of the last groups of woolly mammoths may have died of thirst.


9. The Yorkshire Dales national park is not confined to Yorkshire - more than a quarter is now in Cumbria.


10. There are plans to build the world's largest solar farm in the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Lamb » 10 Aug 2016, 21:51

Dr Frook wrote:
6. Intelligent people tend to be messier and swear more than others.


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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 20 Aug 2016, 08:19

1. Neuroscientists scanned Sting's brain in an effort to understand creativity.


2. Tall people are more likely to vote Conservative.


3. Most dogs prefer praise to food.


4. Being the sole breadwinner is bad for men's health but good for women's.


5. Only 2% of women in China use tampons.


6. Professional golfers are more likely to have one egg-shaped hip joint.


7. Viruses are more dangerous in the morning.


8. People in Nanning, southern China, attach skirts to their cars to protect them from rats.


9. A hot bath could be better than cycling at lowering the blood sugar levels of type-2 diabetics


10. Half of Milan's 1,270 pizzerias are run by non-Italians, of whom two thirds are Egyptian.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 21 Aug 2016, 02:10

Lamb wrote:
Dr Frook wrote:
6. Intelligent people tend to be messier and swear more than others.


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It's true. I had a uni supervisor who was extremely smart and extremely messy
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 24 Aug 2016, 07:53

1. Holding your coffee cup from above in a claw-like grip is the best way to prevent it from spilling.


2. Dog people have on average 26 more Facebook friends than cat people.


3. Horses' funny walk, known as an ambling gait, first appeared in York during the 9th Century.


4. Only about half of perceived friendships are mutual.


5. When you wake up with stiff limbs in the morning, it's because your body's natural ibuprofen hasn't kicked in yet.


6. Some people believe Twitter will close down in 2017 (the company says it won't).


7. One female Greenland shark is around 400 years of age, making the species the longest-living vertebrate known on Earth.


8. In Thailand, it's illegal to be a "dishonest" politician - as defined by officials loyal to the military.


9. There's a mystery object beyond Neptune with an orbit that is hard to explain.


10. Extroverted CEOs make their companies less money.
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