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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Tycoon » 23 Dec 2016, 00:05

Dr Frook wrote:4. You can spend $1m playing a mobile phone game.


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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby GarthVader449 » 06 Jan 2017, 00:05

Dr Frook wrote:1. San Francisco International Airport has a "therapy pig" to comfort travellers.
8. Music fans are now spending more on vinyl than digital downloads.


Yeah, but it was only for one month, the next month the trend went back to normal where digital exceeded vinyl.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 08 Jan 2017, 19:25

1. Emails you send on Mondays contain more grammatical mistakes than those sent on other days.


2. The Queen of Sweden thinks her palace is haunted by ghosts.


3. You can use a display computer in an Apple store all day and no-one will ever ask you to leave.


4. Gary Lineker and Jonathan Agnew regularly receive soiled loo paper in the post.


5. It's possible to travel by train all the way from Yiwu in eastern China to Barking in east London.


6. The British government thinks people have £433m of pound coins stashed away in their homes.


7. In the US, at least one person a week is shot by a toddler.


8. Only one member of the US Congress identifies as unaffiliated with any religion.


9. There are 79 organs in the human body, one more than previously thought.


10. The most popular condiment eaten with chips in Australia is chicken salt. Which contains no chicken.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 11 Jan 2017, 20:46

1. President Barack Obama is afraid of snowmen.


2. A genie-themed 90s family comedy called Shazaam doesn't exist - but lots of Redditors are convinced it does.


3. Too much Facebook browsing makes you miserable.


4. There are almost twice as many rats in Paris as people.


5. Stress can make dogs go grey.


6. Pregnancy changes the brain.


7. Since 2005, 198 local newspapers have closed in the UK.


8. Dame Shirley Bassey was unable to sing for six months after her daughter died.


9. JK Rowling is working on two new novels.


10. Home ownership among 25-year-olds has halved in England and Wales in the last 20 years.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 14 Jan 2017, 19:19

1. Holding your baby on your left side might help you bond.


2. You can't block Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook.


3. In 2022, you'll be able to look to the sky and watch two stars colliding 1,800 years ago.


4. For some years before he died, David Bowie had been working on a musical about aliens, mariachi bands and an imaginary collection of unreleased Bob Dylan songs.


5. White rhinos return to the same communal spot to poo - allowing them to pick up information about each other from the dung.


6. All electric trains in the Netherlands are powered entirely by wind energy.


7. About 70,000 retired Britons use Spain's health system, while only 81 Spanish pensioners are registered as covered by the NHS.


8. A Trump-branded apartment block in New Jersey was marketed to Chinese investors with the theme from The Sopranos.


9. Fund managers from poor backgrounds deliver better investment returns than those born rich.


10. Local anaesthetic has no effect on some people - and no-one knows why.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 24 Jan 2017, 19:24

1. Cambridge University has a "professor of play".


2. iPhones cost $98,000 (£80,000) in Venezuela.


3. Some drugs used to treat Parkinson's disease have had the side-effect of turning patients into gambling addicts.


4. Vladimir Putin thinks Russian prostitutes are "undoubtedly the best in the world".


5. The expression to "shed crocodile tears" exists in 45 European languages as well as Arabic, Swahili, Persian, Indian languages, Chinese and Mongolian.


6. Legal marijuana businesses have created 123,000 jobs in the United States.


7. BMW exports more vehicles from the United States than any other manufacturer.


8. There are six men still alive who walked on the moon.


9. Native Americans are issued with cards by the federal government, certifying their "degree of Indian blood".

10. Getting trolled by Donald Trump can be good (as well as bad) for your business.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 03 Feb 2017, 19:25

1. British boys receive £2.20 more pocket money per week than girls.


2. You can give birth while napping.


3. An average of 1.8 people are murdered each year in Iceland.


4. MI6's real-life "Q" is a woman.


5. An otter the size of a wolf once roamed China.


6. "The wind was pushing me" is not an excuse that will get you off a speeding charge in Western Australia.


7. A gorilla named John Daniel was raised in an English village as a human boy, had his own bedroom and could do the washing up.


8. Travelling to a foreign country can change the way you think about right and wrong.


9. Dogs' preferred musical genres are reggae and soft rock.


10. Melbourne is typically 0.3C hotter on Thursdays and Friday mornings, when commuters pour into the city, than on Sundays.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 08 Feb 2017, 20:14

1. Johnny Depp is alleged to have spent $30,000 a month on fine wine.


2. The Great Scottish half-marathon course is 150m too short.


3. You can carry one falcon in economy class on a Qatar Airways flight.


4. Galactic X-rays could point to dark matter proof.


5. A dating app is being developed to help orangutans find a love match.


6. A man sold his back tattoo to German art collector, for 150,000 Euros.


7. Being 'hangry' actually exists.


8. A virtual reality game could help detect schizophrenia.


9. 31 small cat species hail from seven distinct lineages.


10. David Beckham owns over 1000 pairs of football boots.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 21 Feb 2017, 19:16

Mick Jagger can't remember writing his autobiography


You cannot drink alcohol between 09:00 and 17:00 if you work at Lloyd's of London


Geologists have discovered an eighth continent: Zealandia


Some expat Bolivians and Peruvians are prepared to pay $30 for a guinea pig that they eat on special occasions


Vicious Valentine's cards were more popular than romantic ones in Victorian England


A typical Tupperware party in the US will yield about $400 (£320) worth of sales.


Honeybees let out a "whoop" when they bump into each other


The price of a minimum "basket of goods" has risen by up to 30% since 2008.


Eating a lot of fat is worse for men than women


UK families spend an average of £11.40 a week on alcohol and cigarettes.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 05 Mar 2017, 21:02

1. Nicole Kidman has a unique way of clapping.

2. Bees can play football and score goals.

3. A loaf of bread emits half a kilo of CO2.

4. A quarter of all McDonald's Filet-o-fish sandwiches are sold during Lent.

5. Scientists can grow human cells on apples.

6. Termites bang their heads to mimic ant footsteps.

7. People who have sex are happier due to the higher levels of "affectionate touch".

8. Rihanna travels with a case containing her own personal supply of spices.

9. A public swimming pool typically contains 75 litres of urine.

10. Even school goldfish get a flaming Viking boat burial in Orkney.
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