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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 14 May 2016, 08:00

1. You can get a UK driving licence if your name is Buzz Lightyear.


2. US presidential contender Ted Cruz bought 100 tins of Campbell's Chunky soup immediately after his honeymoon.


3. The North Pole has been moving towards London since the year 2000.


4. Nearly half of people who bought vinyl last month have yet to play it.


5. Parents are worse at telling if their child is lying than complete strangers.


6. It costs 13m roubles (£140,000) a year to keep Vladimir Lenin's body embalmed.


7. Octopuses are surprisingly good escape artists.


8. Sniffer dogs detected no illegal drugs at Manchester Airport during one seven-month period, but one often found "small amounts of cheese or sausages".


9. Of the Guardian's 10 most abused online writers eight are women, and the two men are black.


10. House of Commons clerks are unfamiliar with Scots usage of the word "mince".
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 17 May 2016, 21:37

1. Prince had a swear jar.


2. Gucci doesn't like it when people burn paper replicas of its products as offerings to the dead.


3. People with variants of a "ginger gene" look, on average, two years younger.


4. Most dogs dislike being cuddled.


5. Great artists have a lot in common with psychopaths.


6. People with more friends have higher pain tolerance.


7. Lizards share sleep patterns with humans.


8. There are 30 peacocks and peahens roaming loose in the village of Ushaw Moor, County Durham.


9. In 2014, 250,000 cars were impounded in Paris.


10. Robots mentor Japanese ex-convicts.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 19 May 2016, 23:13

1. The average iPhone user unlocks their mobile 80 times a day.


2. Messages in bottles were used to study ocean currents 100 years ago.


3. The average woman throws away 300lbs (136kg) of sanitary products in her lifetime.


4. Half your brain stays alert when you sleep in new surroundings.


5. London Underground journeys take more than four times longer for disabled people.


6. The average age of sexual maturity decreased from 18 in 1880 to 12.5 in 1980.


7. There used to be just one legal skate park in the whole of Norway.


8. Eating beef was thought to stir up courage in Shakespeare's time. But it was also thought to make people stupid.


9. There has been a record surge in applications to join the French police.


10. A stalker typically contacts 21 people known to the victim.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 21 May 2016, 20:09

1. There's such a thing as eye mites.


2. The Hong Kong authorities glue pavement bricks down to stop protesters throwing them.


3. The world's oldest cat reached 30.


4. Teesside Airport rail station only has eight passengers a year pass through it.


5. You can potentially get a mobile signal while locked in a vault.


6. Some Domino's pizza outlets can work out when regular customers are sick.


7. Prince Charles treats his farm animals with homeopathy.


8. Boris Johnson knows how to sing Ode to Joy in German.


9. Buffalo sometimes need rescuing from roofs.


10. It is possible - although illegal - to do 132mph in a Vauxhall Astra van.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 22 May 2016, 21:38

1. British artists accounted for one in every six LPs sold worldwide last year


2. Green light can help migraine sufferers


3. The Chinese government fabricates nearly 490 million social media posts every year


4. Google is patenting a "sticky" technology so that pedestrians who get hit by self-driving cars will stick to them rather than bounce off


5. Heathrow airport has an annual points-based "noise budget"


6. Mars was once devastated by 50-metre high tsunamis


7. The spice turmeric may help stave off dementia


8. Fifty percent of 30-year-olds in Greece and Bulgaria live with their parents


9. People who watch porn more than once a week are likely to be more religious than those who watch it only a couple of times a month


10. Artisanal marijuana crab cakes have been developed in the US
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Flobalob » 23 May 2016, 17:58

Dr Frook wrote:Google is patenting a "sticky" technology so that pedestrians who get hit by self-driving cars will stick to them rather than bounce off

This might just be the funniest thing I've heard today
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 30 May 2016, 22:38

1. Paul McCartney used to get his girlfriend's mother to comb his leg hair.


2. The oldest world title in sport is for real tennis and it dates back to 1740.


3. The world's most dangerous school run may be in south-western China, where children have to climb down an 800m cliff.


4. The Mongol army probably gave up invading Europe in the 13th Century because of the wet weather.


5. US nuclear weapons are controlled using eight-inch floppy disks.


6. The Russian Eurovision singer Sergey Lazarev has launched his own range of dog food.


7. Gordon Brown is descended from Vikings.


8. The Game Of Thrones character Hodor's name actually means "Hold the door".


9. Half of all misogynistic tweets posted on Twitter come from women, a study suggested.


10. The monks of Mount Athos shun female animals - except for cats.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 04 Jun 2016, 09:39

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 » 16 Jun 2016, 22:00

1. The Queen was told she was too important to be president of the George Formby Society.


2. A single monkey can cause a nationwide blackout in Kenya.


3. The tattoo policy of the US Marine Corps is 32 pages long.


4. Sales of Vimto in the Middle East spike during Ramadan.


5. Fish can recognise human faces.


6. Sadness causes more road accidents than tiredness


7. Electric eels can leap out of the water to shock their prey.


8. More money is loaded on Starbucks cards worldwide than several banks have on customer deposit.


9. A pig and a kangaroo are capable of forming an intimate relationship.


10. A seagull will turn orange if it falls into a vat of chicken tikka masala.
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Re: 10 things we didnt know last week.

Postby Dr Frook » 02 Jul 2016, 22:28

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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