Where do you find this information?
Where do you find this information?
"Yes, Mati. That was exacshully what I was saying."
There is a link at the end of my post to BBC's Magazine page where they come from.Originally Posted by Serenata
1. Two cups of spearmint tea a day is thought to control excessive hair growth for women.
2. Less than 5% of cohabiting couples stay together for longer than 10 years.
3. A baby can survive being born after a gestation period of 22 weeks.
4. Dog bites have doubled in 10 years, judging by admissions to hospital.
5. Chimpanzees make their own spears for hunting.
6. Cross-country skiing is a useful skill to have when exploring the moon.
7. Poor maths is costing UK shoppers £800m a year because they don’t notice when they are short-changed.
8. Peter Hain’s house in Neath has a dancefloor.
9. Trabants were made from plasticised cotton waste, called Duroplast.
10. Tony Blair still plays his guitar most days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a010047
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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. Burglar alarms, traffic wardens and crowded busses are good news for home owners, signalling an area is on the up.
2. "Wet disposal" means a hurried assassination.
3. Despite what the movies suggest, a lit cigarette won't ignite clothes doused in petrol, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms research laboratory in Beltsville, Maryland.
4. The tentacles of the colossal squid caught by New Zealand fisherman would make calamari rings the size of tractor tyres.
5. Incest is not illegal in France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium or Portugal.
6. But advertising wine on French TV is banned.
7. It's illegal to introduce beavers into the wild.
8. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez hosts a daily radio phone-in show.
9. Some modern cars have a "limp home" mode.
10. A rise in crematorium funerals is causing an increase in damaging mercury emissions in the air from melted dental fillings.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a010309
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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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Oh no.And I bet it's contributing to global warmng too.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
1. The premium rate phone services market in the UK is the biggest in the world, worth £1.2bn a year - that's £20 each for every man, woman and child.
2. Terry Wogan gets paid for presenting Children in Need - the only presenter to do so.
3. More than half (52%of smokers haven't told their parents about their habit.
4. Producing palm oil - hailed as a future biofuel – can produce carbon emissions 10 times that of petroleum.
5. Prince Charles is a fan of veteran reggae artist Sugar Minott - requesting one of his songs be played while visiting a record shop in London.
6. Coffee doesn't make you more alert in the morning, according to a study by Bristol University.
7. Superheroes are susceptible to snipers, with Captain America being killed by a bullet.
8. Only about half of China's population can speak the national language, Mandarin.
9. There are 946 billionaires in the world .
10. The moon glows a coppery red when totally eclipsed by the shadow of the earth - itshue determined by how much dust is in the earth's upper atmosphere.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a010595
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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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Well, that's a crock. Whoever paid for that study got ripped off.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
I agree. Who could make through the hours between 8 and 12 without a cup of joe (cuppajoe) or other cafeinne supplement....
"...if you weren't smart enough to get a pedophile in a dress to put a small amount of water on the child’s forehead, then what the eff did you think was going to happen?
Just another reason on the already long list why I dont like the smarmy git.
In relation to the caffeine study:
In my final year at school back in Scotland Iremember having to do a final project in Chem. My topic was analysing and comparing caffeine content in various drinks/products (tea, coffee, coke, "pep pills") - I really chose that topic 'cause I got to mess about with chloroform.......
With regards to the effects of caffeine, it is of course a stimulant and increases alertness etc. From what I remember however it also has a psychological addiction property to it, and where people are used to having it the morning and then for some reason do not the effect is greater than someone not drinking coffee and then having a cup one morning. I can only assume the research is somehow based on this, otherwise it would appear to be a huge waste of money.
There once was a scotsman named Drew
Who put too much wine in his stew
He felt a bit drunk
And fell off his bunk
And landed smack into his shoe ~(C) Ms Niamh Anne King
I think the same goes for smokers. They become satisfyed after having one, and therefore they are chemically and psychologically addicted. I guess.
penuriosus est is quisnam denies scientia
Asa Adams
Currently reading
Ethan Frome
Portrait of an artist.....again*sigh*
1. Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister were written not only to entertain but to promote the idea that working for a unified public interest was a myth - as argued by Margaret Thatcher's favourite theorist, James Buchanan.
2. Mobile phones in large part have little effect on medical equipment, despite bans on their use in most hospitals.
3. Comic Relief has raised £425m since it started 21 years ago up until Friday's extravaganza.
4. Parting hair on the left is said to emphasise masculine traits as it draws attention to left-brain activities; similarly, parting on the right is said to emphasise feminine traits.
5. About 200 million light bulbs - of the common or garden incandescent tungsten filament variety - are sold each year in the UK; there are plans to phase these out by 2011.
6. The brief flowering of the cherry blossom tree is taken so seriously in Japan that forecasts are used to plan festivals, and travel agents use them to plan tours.
7. The woman who invented the modern incarnation of Mother's Day was so distressed by its commercialisation that she tried to copyright the date to protect her idea. She failed.
8. Four out of every 10 children are born out of wedlock.
9. To be found attractive, women should sway their hips and men their shoulders (although researchers call this a "shoulder swagger").
10. There are 1.3 billion £20 notes in circulation.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a010595
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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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Now this is one of the most rediculous things I've ever heard. This is the ultimate psycho babble.
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Uh oh. I'm parting on the wrong side.
What about people who part down the middle?
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
U-oh!
*has a feeling that 'somone' is parting his hair on the right!
No worries, me too, it seems like!Uh oh. I'm parting on the wrong side.
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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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No, as a teenager I used to part my hair on the left. As an adult I started parting down the middle. I can't tell you how this psychobabble irks me. It's nonsense, like astrology.U-oh!
*has a feeling that 'somone' is parting his hair on the right!
Good question. I could quip and say "bi" but per above I part down the middle and I'm completely and only straight.What about people who part down the middle?
LET THERE BE LIGHT
"Love follows knowledge." – St. Catherine of Siena
My literature blog: http://ashesfromburntroses.blogspot.com/
Eeee!
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