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    Quote Originally Posted by Wilde woman View Post
    Yes, I saw many black squirrels when I was in Ontario a few weeks ago. Apparently, they're one of the selling points for visiting there.
    I actually have one mounted on my home entertainment shelves that I shot several (20?) years ago
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    1. Away football teams usually have a 30% chance of winning.

    2. Babies born with no cheekbones have a condition known as Treacher Collins syndrome.

    3. David Cameron slept on the Mall the night before Prince Charles married Lady Diana.

    4. A solitary church may signal where an entire village once stood.

    5. German shoes are wider than Italian.

    6. It can take 18 years for the foot's bones, muscles and ligaments to harden into adult form.

    7. One in three people aged over 65 will die with dementia.

    8. Dartmoor prison rents land from Prince Charles.

    9. Badgers still occupy setts known since the Domesday Book.

    10. The number of people raising funds for charity has doubled in the last three years.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_162.shtml
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    3. David Cameron slept on the Mall the night before Prince Charles married Lady Diana.
    Do you think he'll sleep there the night before William and Kate's wedding?

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    1. Fish shrink in winter.

    2. A cracked elephant's tusk requires at least 47 tubes of resin to fill it.

    3. North and South Korea have technically been at war for decades, because no peace treaty was signed in 1953.

    4. The Shard was first designed on the back of a napkin.

    5. The number of schools teaching cheerleading is triple the number that teach judo.

    6. A cup of coffee combined with a 20-minute nap will double the caffeine effect.

    7. Donald Trump's hair is real.

    8. One in four people with HIV in the UK is unaware they have it.

    9. The US president has the power to shut down key computer systems in that country.

    10. Turkey tycoon Bernard Matthews started his business with 20 eggs and a second-hand incubator.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_163.shtml
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    7. Sparrows eavesdrop on fighting birds.
    What does that even mean?

    9. Mount Everest has its own 3G wireless network.
    Wow. Just wow.

    5. One in five people only clean their homes at weekends.
    That's me. Guilty as charged.

    1. Fish shrink in winter.
    So now fish and I have something in common. As I try to survive my first winter on the East Coast, I find myself constantly shrinking into a fetal position in bed and crying.
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    1. Mercury can cause birds to seek same-sex relationships.

    2. Penguin is a Welsh word.

    3. Coronation Street was going to be called Florizel Street.

    4. Coca has been chewed for 8,000 years.

    5. In the Arctic Circle you can take a mortgage out to buy a fur coat.

    6. The pavlova was invented in New Zealand.

    7. Temperatures in Qatar reach 50C in summer.

    8. Italy and Luxembourg are Eurovision Song Contest stayaways.

    9. Mick Hucknall had sex with 3,000 women in three years, he says.

    10. Driving a car with snow on the roof contravenes the Highway Code.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post

    9. Mick Hucknall had sex with 3,000 women in three years, he says.
    That's 2.7 women per day. Unless he's a famous musician I'm not bying it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by papayahed View Post
    That's 2.7 women per day. Unless he's a famous musician I'm not bying it.
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    haha, I knew that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    10. Driving a car with snow on the roof contravenes the Highway Code.
    That's not actually true, and I'm very surprised to see it has made the BBC website.

    As a teenager I used to frequent a forum called totse.com, which gained some notoriety for this amongst other things. The snow on the car roof myth was created and spread around the internet by some of the forum regulars several years ago, and weirdly it seems to have surfaced again now...
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    Quote Originally Posted by RaoulDuke View Post
    That's not actually true, and I'm very surprised to see it has made the BBC website.

    As a teenager I used to frequent a forum called totse.com, which gained some notoriety for this amongst other things. The snow on the car roof myth was created and spread around the internet by some of the forum regulars several years ago, and weirdly it seems to have surfaced again now...
    Actually you are required to remove all the snow from your car:
    remove all snow that might fall off into the path of other road users
    http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAn...code/DG_069859 (section 229)
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    There was a nice man from the AA (or maybe RAC) on tv last week showing you how to drive in the snow and he said it was illegal to drive with snow on the roof of your car in case it thawed then slipped down and covered the windscreen, blocking your vision.

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    1. Starfish have a Teflon-like non-stick surface.

    2. There's a condition that can cause teenagers to sleep for weeks on end.

    3. Soap opera can be live.

    4. There are currently no machines that can correct flawed banknotes. But there will be soon.

    5. Jim Morrison may actually not have exposed himself at a Miami concert in 1969.

    6. Taking photos of children at nativity plays is not against the law..

    7. There could be planets made of diamond.

    8. More than half of all adults in the EU are overweight.

    9. Almost one in five off-licences in Britain went under last year.

    10. Patients recover quicker from surgery when looking at trees.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_165.shtml
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    1. The father of Michael Palin, who brought the stammer to national attention in the film, A Fish Called Wanda, had one himself.

    2. Mark Twain opened Kensal Rise library in north London.

    3. Birds binge drink.

    4. There are 18 super-arbitrators of the English language version of Wikipedia.

    5. Aristotle was known as the human Wikipedia.

    6. Tinie Tempah's real name is Patrick.

    7. An elephant can be hired for £20 in New Delhi .

    8. The fall of the Roman Empire can be detected in tree growth rings.

    9. People who are tone deaf can hear music perfectly well.

    10. Saint Wilgefortis was a woman who grew a beard to resist offers of marriage.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...st_w_169.shtml
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
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    3. Birds binge drink.

    7. An elephant can be hired for £20 in New Delhi .


    3. Birds binge drink.

    I believe it. When the Cedar Waxwings and Robins migrate into our neck of the woods, they ravage the berries from the Cedar / Juniper trees. After some time, one will begin to observe erratic "drunken" behavior among the birds; flying into windows, dropping to the ground, etc.

    7. An elephant can be hired for £20 in New Delhi .

    That's a bragain, 20 pounds for about 8,000 pounds !

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