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1. The UK and Spain have the highest number of cocaine users in Europe.
2. Croydon has more CCTV cameras than New York.
3. A giveaway DVD in a newspaper costs as little as 16p to produce, including rights, materials and manufacture.
4. The price of every DVD disc includes a small royalty to Philips, which developed the format.
5. Wallace and Gromit live in Wigan. Until now, creator Nick Park has been cagey about where 62 West Wallaby Street is, but in their latest film an A-Z of Wigan can be glimpsed on the dashboard of Wallace's car.
6. Three-quarters of the salt in our diets comes from processed foods.
7. Noodles have been around for at least 4,000 years, following a find in China.
8. Smokers spend on average £91,832 on cigarettes during their lifetime.
9. Madonna doesn't let her children watch television, only movies.
10. Thirsty whalers in the 19th Century used to kill tortoises for their urine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4325890.stm
1. Ordinary - not avian - flu kills about 12,000 people in the UK every winter.
2. You are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the National Lottery.
3. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).
4. And human fingerprints can be worn down, particularly among manual labourers, typists and musicians.
5. Species of the week: the Osedax mucofloris, or "bone-eating snot-flower", a marine worm so-called because it lives off whale bones, looks like a flower, and is covered in mucus.
6. Half of all violent crime involves no injury to the victim.
7. Rats are good swimmers. One this week was caught after it staged an escape across 400m of open ocean.
8. The government chief vet's family keeps chickens; Dr Debby Reynolds is charged with keeping a check on bird flu.
9. The hoax Yorkshire Ripper letters sent to police were destroyed more than 20 years ago by chemicals in fingerprint tests.
10. EBay can become an addiction - the Priory clinic is now admitting people with an online auction habit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4348766.stm
1. ESP is fake.
2. You can make a hover craft.
3. A water jug can bceome a rocket or miniautomobile.
4. There are many things that should not be put in microwaves.
5. Some safes can only be cracked (outside of the combo) by using a tank.
6. Parcel tape is the stickiest tape among that, clear tape, and masking tape.
7. Milk is the best drink for spicy foods.
8. A stick of tnt can spread mulch quickly.
9. You can she about 2 kg. in four hours.
10. Greed makes you run faster than fear.
11. You can never get enough exploding caravans.
1. In colonial America, servants negotiated agreements that they would not be forced to eat lobster more than twice a week.
2. The daily cost of water for the average household is 68p - what it would cost to buy a 2-litre bottle of Evian in a supermarket.
3. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.
4. The majority of those living alone are aged over 65, particularly widowed women.
5. There used to be signs on buses in the UK warning against spitting to guard against the spread of TB.
6. Carousel fraud, a VAT scam in which products are circulated around fake companies, is so widespread that it costs EU countries the equivalent of the VAT take of France.
7. Des Lynam saw Laurel and Hardy on stage at the Brighton Hippodrome in 1951 aged eight.
8. Rather than abstaining, an MP can vote both for and against a motion at the same time.
9. Prince Charles may not live the most carbon-neutral of lifestyles, but he does drive a hybrid car.
10. And he wrote a fan letter to Jamie Oliver after the TV chef's School Dinners series.
no you can never get enough exploding caravans,sigh.Scher after reading one of your posts i picked out one interesting item from your list and told some people at a dinner party. i thought they would be interested. Instead a number of them fixed their glare upon my surprised face and told me it was a silly lie and to not believe all of what i heard. I quietly with all the dignity i could muster fixed my gaze upon the spinach dip on my plate and said not a word for quite a while.
1. In Guy Fawkes's day, those who persistently refused to attend Protestant services were fined £20 a month - the annual salary of a school teacher.
2. Margaret Thatcher "stamped her feet" in anger at the prospect of German reunification, according to Helmut Kohl's memoirs.
3. The first traffic cones were used in building Preston bypass in the late 1950s, replacing red lantern paraffin burners.
4. Britons buy about one million pumpkins for Halloween, 99% of which are used for lanterns rather than for eating.
5. Albania is retiring its Soviet MiG aircraft, which have killed 35 Albanians, but not a single enemy.
6. The French translation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has an extra 120 pages as it is a less concise language than English.
7. Bailiffs cannot evict on Sundays, bank holidays, Christmas Day or Good Friday.
8. Strictly Come Dancing judge Bruno Tonioli was once a backing dancer for Bananarama in the band's heyday.
9. You can dial the emergency services with 112 as well as 999.
10. Cabinet ministers who have been sacked, resigned or lost their seats collect an £18,000 golden goodbye (and those who leave twice get the payment again).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4392080.stm
1. During WWI, drinking water was often delivered to the front in old petrol canisters. "If you'd been there long enough you could tell the difference between water that had come in a BP can and one that had come from a Shell can," one veteran recalled in BBC One's The Last Tommy.
2. The mother of stocky cricketer - and surprise Strictly Come Dancing front-runner - Darren Gough was a ballet dancer. She has been helping him with his pivots.
3. Nettles growing on land where bodies are buried will reach a foot higher than those growing elsewhere.
4. Brian Cobby, the voice of the speaking clock, was also the man behind Thunderbirds' "5,4,3,2,1 Thunderbirds are Go".
5. It was partly thanks to the pioneering use of LPs by the Royal National Institute for the Blind that they were eventually adopted by the music industry.
6. The late Lord Lichfield used a whistle to keep the Royal Family in order when taking the photographs at Charles and Diana's wedding.
7. The concept of ransom comes from the medieval code of chivalry, which decreed that defeated knights be unharmed and exchanged for a sum of money.
8. A 19th Century covenant forbids the building of sports facilities on a plot of land earmarked for the 2012 Olympic development in east London. The government is planning to pass a law overturning the rule.
9. Armistice Day is one of the four peak times fo the year for the speaking clock, the others being News Year's Eve and when the clocks change.
10. The French equivalent of the Remembrance Day poppy is the blue cornflower.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/...6.stm#10things
1. Wrapping up warm really CAN help stop you catching a cold.
2. CS Lewis wrote the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe in three months. (CS, by the way, stands for Clive Staples.)
3. London's Waterloo station carries four times as many passengers as Heathrow each day.
4. Prisoners wear lurid green and yellow jumpsuits when appearing in court so they can be easily spotted if they try to escape.
5. Every two minutes someone is told they have cancer.
6. The actress who played Connie, the woman with a smart red bob haircut who advertised AOL for five years in the late 90s/early 00s, now works in an estate agent's in London.
7. The Japanese word "chokuegambo" describes the wish that there were more designer-brand shops on a given street.
8. More Coca-Cola products are consumed per person in Mexico than any other country, and the company has 70% of the nation's soft drinks market.
9. Fountain pens are unsuitable for children under 14, because they don't have holes in the pen caps.
10. The tartufo bianchi - a fungus which smells of decaying leaves and is better known as a white truffle - is worth more per gram than gold.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/...6.stm#10things
1. Tony Blair is a big fan of kung-fu film star Jackie Chan. His favourite movie is Rush Hour.
2. The Royal Mail uses 342 million rubber bands a year to bundle up letters. It has switched to using red bands so that they can be more easily seen when dropped.
3. Loo roll is the third biggest selling household commodity, with sales exceeding £11bn a year.
4. The average price of a Christmas card is 71p.
5. BBC props managers inject Germolene into Mars Bars in the EastEnders shop to stop them being eaten, says former star Sid Owen.
6. Guy Ritchie hates his wife's new album and prefers Irish folk music.
7. Binge drinking dates back at least to the 12th Century.
8. Actor Brian Forster (who played the second Chris Partridge in The Partridge Family), is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens. He was born on 14 April 1960, 101 years to the day that A Tale of Two Cities was published
9. Former Nazi scientists helped put the first man on the Moon and their legacy helped the development of the B-2 Stealth bomber and Cruise missiles.
10. The ability to ignore information makes for a better memory.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4455948.stm
1. The smiley sun anti-nuclear badge was designed by a Danish pupil in a schools competition in the mid-1970s.
2. David Blunkett co-ordinates his clothes by asking the helper who does his laundry to hang his clothes in blocks of colour.
3. Road Safety Minister Stephen Ladyman has nine points on his driver's licence, as he told Top Gear.
4. Quicksand and custard share the same physical properties - both are non-Newtonian fluids that flow when treated gently but thicken when hit hard.
5. The Queen and Prince Philip send 850 Christmas cards a year.
6. The longest speech to the House of Commons lasted six hours, a record set in 1828.
7. The concept of Limbo dates from the 13th Century to explain what happened to children who died before being christened. The Vatican is preparing to abolish it from the church's teachings.
8. Residents of the remote Nedd Valley in the Brecon Beacons had no mains electricity until this week - the last community in England and Wales without it.
9. Fourteen percent of seven- and eight-year-olds have mobile phones.
10. Cicadas spend up to 17 years underground before emerging in their adult form.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4477512.stm
1. The UK's mistletoe capital is Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire, where nearly all wholesale supplies of the plant are sold.
2. The familiar London double-decker bus, the Routemaster, might have disappeared from the capital's streets, but it's still used in Guernsey.
3. It is illegal to buy cigarettes under the age of 20 in Japan.
4. A knowledge of just 100 words would allow you to understand half of any book, even adult fiction, researchers at Warwick University say.
5. Sleep deprivation can make you hear police cars. Ben Fogle, currently rowing across the Atlantic with James Cracknell, reports experiencing just such a phenomenon.
6. You can buy poker chips with verses of scripture on them.
7. In theory, just 10 human embryos could be enough to stock a viable UK stem cell bank.
8. A collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a "smack".
9. You can now be prosecuted for taking part in an unauthorised protest near Parliament.
10. The word "twerp" has been classed as both parliamentary and unparliamentary language. In 1956, the Speaker ruled it in order because he assumed "it was a sort of technical term of the aviation industry". It was later classed as unacceptable.
Scher
From your very first post on this thread:
6. Cats are genetically unable to taste sweet things. While dogs adore chocolate, cats remain indifferent.
Chocolate is poisonous to both cats and dogs. Neither should have any. Enough and it could kill them.
Just wanted to let people know.
I'm making around a 93% there...Quote:
Originally Posted by yellowfeverlime
...but making a 78% in Geometry. :rage:
That doesn't surprise me.Quote:
Fourteen percent of seven- and eight-year-olds have mobile phones.
No, but he could easily buy me one. :goof:Quote:
Bill Gates does not have an iPod.
1. Magnetic North is not fixed, but in fact is drifting at such a speed away from northern Canada it could be in Siberia in 50 years.
2. The Body Shop is banned from China where cosmetics have to be tested on animals, says Dame Anita Roddick.
3. Paul McCartney's animal rights activism was inspired by his watching Bambi.
4. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".
5. A sound can travel for 200 miles if it is loud enough.
6. Aslan is the Turkish for lion. (apt, given that the White Witch in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe tempts Edmund to dark side with the offer of Turkish delight).
7. One in 16.66 Britons (6% of the population) is homosexual according to new government figures.
8. Each tank at the Buncefield oil depot housed 700,000 gallons of fuel, enough to take a bus to the Moon and back 12 times.
9. People can train their bodies to heat up, helping them survive longer in icy water.
10. Wikipedia, the free online encyclopaedia that is compiled and updated by volunteers and has frequently had its accuracy called into question, is about as reliable as the Encyclopedia Britannica, according to a study by Nature.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4520854.stm