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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 13 Oct 2016, 05:35

1. Ten per cent of the Icelandic population travelled to France for the European championships.


2. The fertility drug Pergonal was developed using gallons of nuns' urine.


3. Old songs now outsell new songs.


4. People who meditate are more aware of their unconscious brain.


5. Scientists have discovered the world's first known swimming centipede.


6. Conservative leadership candidate Theresa May owns more than 100 cookbooks - but none by Delia Smith.


7. Technology is being developed to block concertgoers from filming live gigs on their smartphones.


8. The Canadian prime minister is to feature as a hero in a new Marvel comic.


9. At 81, Labour MP Paul Flynn is now the oldest frontbencher in the Commons since Victorian prime minister William Gladstone.


10. It will be another 500 years before the battlefields of the Somme are cleared of bombs.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 17 Oct 2016, 20:24

1. Close-protection security consultants work on the principle that a client should never be more than eight seconds from rescue.

2. One 19-year-old Donald Trump supporter is single-handedly distorting US polling averages.

3. The world's top institution for undergraduates, measured by Nobel prize winners per 10,000 students, is the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.

4. You can be served a lawsuit via Twitter.

5. When fleeing a perceived threat, deer run either north or south.

6. The ancient Greeks may have reached China 1,500 years before Marco Polo.

7. Saddam Hussein had a secret "detention room" on New York's Upper East Side.

8. Your doctor's political preferences can influence the treatment they recommend.

9. You can use the new plastic £5 note to play vinyl records.

10. Snowboarding may have originated in Turkey.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Pedobear » 17 Oct 2016, 21:47

Flobalob wrote:
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Flobalob wrote:
FWG Leader wrote:2. A 51-year-old software engineer named Bryan Henderson has edited Wikipedia 47,000 times to remove the ungrammatical term "comprised of".

Apparently it's not that ungrammatical. Anyone up for doing the exact opposite?


You're right, its not. This guy needs to be taught a lesson... lets undo his 47K changes.

Let's.

Sure, why not?
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 23 Oct 2016, 21:08

1. Shanghai's Ikea frowns upon elderly daters clogging up its cafeteria.


2. It's possible to run a marathon in three hours 56 minutes at the age of 85.


3. You can't return or rescind a Nobel prize.


4. India has Uber, but for tractors.


5. School textbooks in Turkey must not contain geometry puzzles featuring the letters F and G - the initials of the out-of-favour cleric Fethullah Gulen.


6. Half of American adults are in a facial recognition database.


7. Aggressive drivers think driverless cars will be easier to bully.


8. An Exeter City supporter has bet £10 on his club to win 4-1 in every game they have played since April 2008, and believes he is around £600 up.


9. Buying an unfinished nuclear power plant in Alabama would cost you at least $36.4m (£29.6m).


10. Rainbows can also occur at night.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 18 Nov 2016, 17:43

1. You can vote from space.


2. People spend 1.3 years of their life on average deciding what to watch on television.


3. The most common word in letters written by ordinary Americans to President Barack Obama is "help".


4. An average-sized condom should be able to hold 18 litres of air.


5. The budget for prison food in England and Wales is £2 per prisoner per day.


6. Dogs might be genetically predisposed to be man's best friend.


7. Most British tourists in the Spanish resort of Magaluf are on their first holiday without their families.


8. Medical marijuana is legal in Florida - but it's also legal to sack someone from their job for using it.


9. Women use the f-word more than men.


10. The Chicago Cubs parade and rally after their baseball World Series victory may have been the seventh largest gathering in human history.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 20 Nov 2016, 17:54

1. You can get pregnant while already being pregnant.

2. Someone has a job making wooden tanks for Islamic State.

3. Three British and three Dutch World War Two ships have vanished from the bottom of the Java Sea.

4. British ambassadors still send telegrams.

5. Dating app Tinder has 37 options for defining gender, beyond male or female.

6. There is an airline class lower than economy.

7. At least one million tonnes of chemical weapons have been dumped in the sea.

8. Every dog alive today is descended from ancient Asian roots.

9. There are 1,800 chemical components in a cup of coffee.

10. A pack of Smarties is more likely to be missing red than any other colour.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 02 Dec 2016, 20:49

1. TV comedy Friends sometimes used stand-ins for its main cast members who looked nothing like them.


2. Fidel Castro's obituary cost the New York Times more man and woman hours over the years than any other article in the newspaper's history.


3. The new Bank of England £5 note is not suitable for vegetarians.


4. If you drink and drive in Canada, your punishment might include being made to listen to Nickelback.


5. There is only one person alive today who was born in the 19th Century.


6. Many astronauts need glasses after they return to Earth - and now scientists think they know why.


7. London's benchmark interest rate, Libor, was invented by a Greek banker arranging a loan for Iran.


8. Industrial spills may be more dangerous in cold weather.


9. The most historically accurate recent Oscar contender is Selma and the least is The Imitation Game.


10. Scorpion manicures are a thing in Mexico.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 06 Dec 2016, 17:27

1. There is a scientific reason why some people have "uncombable" hair.


2. The FBI may list someone as missing even if it knows where they are.


3. After rainbows and moon bows, fog bows are a thing.


4. Some porn sites have a voiceover function for blind people that explains what's going on.


5. A coconut crab's claws are almost twice as strong as a black bear's bite.


6. The world's most employable graduates went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).


7. There is a way to get people with strong views to consider alternative arguments (that doesn't involve shouting or violence).


8. So many Ford Sierra Cosworths were stolen or written off that surviving models have become very valuable.


9. The son of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar works as an architect in Argentina.


10. A dodo skeleton is worth £280,000 ($350,000) at auction.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 10 Dec 2016, 16:54

1. San Francisco International Airport has a "therapy pig" to comfort travellers.


2. George Osborne signed 2,056 Christmas cards each year when he was UK chancellor of the exchequer.


3. Chimpanzees are as good at recognising each other's bottoms as humans are at recognising faces.


4. There are at least four recognised ways of estimating time of death - and they may produce very different results.


5. Trees on city streets may worsen rather than reduce air pollution.


6. People with Parkinson's disease may be helped to write and draw by a wrist-worn device containing tiny vibrating motors.


7. Some of the new Bank of England £5 notes may be worth more than £20,000 each.


8. Music fans are now spending more on vinyl than digital downloads.


9. The regular use of Caesarean sections is having an impact on human evolution.


10. People who regularly trim or remove their pubic hair run a greater risk of sexually transmitted infections than those who do not.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 22 Dec 2016, 18:28

1. Women can improve their chances of winning board games against men by playing rock music in the background.


2. The world's largest mince pie factory is in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, and it produces 720 pies a minute.


3. The top-selling musical artist of 2016, measured by CD sales, is Mozart.


4. You can spend $1m playing a mobile phone game.


5. A pre-election phishing attack on Hillary Clinton's campaign chief succeeded because of a typo by a campaign aide.


6. Britain's least-used railway station, Shippea Hill in Cambridgeshire, serves 12 passengers a year.


7. At US airports, the usual limits on taking liquids through security do not apply if the liquid is holding live fish.


8. The bottom half of American adults by income earn no more in pre-tax income than the bottom half of American adults did in the 1970s.


9. In the UK, 2016's most commonly asked question on Google beginning with the word "what" has been: What is Pokemon Go?


10. A 66-year-old albatross is still fertile.
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