Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Shush. I didn't say anything.
Shush. I didn't say anything.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
1. Spider-Man has died.
2. Margaret Thatcher did not pioneer the Right to Buy scheme for social housing.
3. Almost as many people get married on a Thursday as on a Sunday.
4. A web address can cost nearly £1 million.
5. Suicide bombers are considered a suitable subject for Afghan satire.
6. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cannot bend frying pans with his bare hands.
7. A hole in the ground can qualify as a private members club.
8. It was illegal to sign a football player on a Sunday in the 1950s.
9. Local councils in England own 40 hotels and around 20 cinemas.
10. There are poisonous rats.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_191.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. Mr Men author Roger Hargreaves was the third best-selling author of the last decade, topped only by JK Rowling and Dan Brown.
2. The prison system in Brazil holds an annual Miss Penitentiary beauty contest.
3. TV's Mork and Mindy visited a mother and daughter in Dulwich, south London, in 2003.
4. BBC Radio 4 deters foxes from attacking swans.
5. Sparrows' birdsong has a lot in common with the profanity-strewn bragging of rappers.
6. A shorter than average tongue is not good if you're learning to speak Korean.
7. The Redneck Olympics contains sports such as armpit serenade, watermelon seed spitting contest and bobbin' for pigs feet.
8. Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger can sing in Sanskrit.
9. Most of the 3.5m people who visit Liberty Island each year do not climb the Statue of Liberty.
10. A thin belt of antimatter envelops the Earth.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_192.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. Apple founder Steve Jobs patented designs for two glass staircases.
2. Almost a quarter of new words added to the Chambers Dictionary come from internet culture.
3. Female birds like confident males.
4. Col Gaddafi's compound contained a photo album filled with pictures of former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
5. "Astoundingly thick" is an acceptable description of someone who performs badly on Mastermind.
6. Our ancestors began cooking 1.9 million years ago.
7. Stress really does make hair turn grey.
8. A planet 4,000 light years away from earth is made almost entirely of diamonds.
9. Getting married increases the risk of putting on weight.
10. Britons are now twice as likely to be bitten by a mosquito in the UK than in the 10 years to 2006.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_194.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. Harrogate is the only postcode in Britain without a Tesco store.
2. Coral could be the key to stopping sunburn.
3. We nearly always pick items from the middle shelf in supermarkets.
4. A German city has started taxing prostitutes by installing a ticket machine.
5. An officially hot day in the UK - as classified by the Met Office - is when temperatures reach 30C.
6. Domino's pizza chain is planning to open a restaurant on the moon.
7. In 1941 the government in the UK wanted to know how many bras women owned.
8. The first fluorescent clothing was made from the inventor's wife's wedding dress.
9. The world's atmosphere is worth £4.3 quadrillion, going by the air we breathe in and the price of CO2
10. Britain has 800 major self-storage units, the same as the rest of Europe put together.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_195.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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That's right, give Haliburton more ideas.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
1. Female fiddler crabs are attracted to males who can wave well.
2. The size of the ring finger is linked to the size of your sex drive.
3. The Queen's swans get flu jabs.
4. Lack of sleep leads to sugar cravings.
5. You need apermit to bring more than 2.2Ibs (one kilogram) of meat into Israel.
6. Some people fear spiders, but spiders fear assassin bugs.
7. Crocodiles go off their food when they're stressed.
8. There is a one in 3,200 chance that a Nasa satellite could hit you this month when it plunges from orbit.
9. Cliff sold more calendars than any other male celebrity last year.
10. Forty percent of of active Twitter users do not tweet at all, they just follow other people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_196.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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...and to those with a well endowed Pizzicato.
and like alligators you need to watch out for that medulla oblongata...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfC4u5GCy3I
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One should learn how to cause crocodiles stress... In case we meet them.
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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I've always like a good waver.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
That's why all women should have at least one crocodile handbag.
Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
I like the way you think!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. A planet can orbit two suns.
2. Women remember men with a deep voice more than those with a high voice.
3. Britons contact friends and family via Facebook an average of 3.2 times a week.
4. Escaped pet parrots can teach wild birds to say phrases learnt from their owners.
5. The steel used in the construction of the new Westfield shopping mall in Stratford is equivalent to the weight of 80 million medals.
6. New homes in Denmark are 80% bigger than new homes in the UK.
7. Cavefish can keep time without the sun.
8. Green belts in England cover 13% of total land.
9. Panda poo can reveals a lot about their sex lives.
10. Australians have a third choice when describing their gender on passport applications.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_197.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. MI5 used to have special kettles kept solely for steaming open envelopes.
2. Only one in every 250 million births is a case of conjoined twins.
3. Bill Clinton was invited to appear on Dancing with the Stars, the US version of Strictly Come Dancing.
4. Penguins find their family members by sniffing them out.
5. The world's smallest aquarium contains just two teaspoons of water.
6. Elephants can paint.
7. Red-haired donors are being turned away by the world's largest sperm bank because there is a lack of demand for their "product".
8. Facebook hosts 4% of all photos ever taken.
9. Yawning cools down the brain.
10. Crows can find food with the aid of mirrors.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_198.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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1. TV satellite dishes in the UK mainly point southeast - and so can be used to orientate the lost.
2. Hummus comes in pizza, peanut butter and chocolate mousse flavours in the US.
3. A typical restaurant throws away 21 tonnes of food every year - partly because Brits are loath to ask for doggy bags.
4. Preston bus station joins the Nazca Lines in Peru and a Greek cemetery on this year's list of at-risk cultural heritage sites.
5. Steve Jobs studied calligraphy.
6. Doritos take their name from the Spanish for "little golden".
7. Cream tea in Devon is scone topped with clotted cream then jam. In Cornwall, the order of jam and cream are reversed.
8. Dancing With The Stars contestants in Argentina can get naked.
9. The optimum cooking time for a soft boiled egg suitable for dunking toast soldiers is a full six minutes.
10. The first e-book, back in the 1970s, was the US Declaration of Independence.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_200.shtml
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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