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100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year.
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5. A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.

14. Shoppers are likely to abandon a website if it takes longer than four seconds to load, a survey suggests.

20. According to archaeologists, sex workers charged the equivalent of the price of eight glasses of red wine 2,000 years ago.

33. Half of UK children "drink" almost five litres of cooking oil every year as a result of their pack-a-day crisp habit.

47. Watching television may act as a natural painkiller for children.

60. The clitoris comes from the greek word meaning "little hill" - kleitoris.

64. hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs = people who fear the number 666

69. HIV was around in the 1930

87. Goths are likely to grow up to be doctors, lawyers or architects

94. Brazil's new generation of cars and trucks adapted to run on alcohol has just hit the two-million mark.

95. us sniffer dogs get % star hotels when abroad.

100. The CIA would watch Mission: Impossible and then the phone calls would go round saying: 'Can we do that? Can we do that?' They actually consulted with Hollywood special effects wizards.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2006/12/100_things_we_didnt_know_last.shtml

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3. Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.

27. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
(Great potential for an energy source if we could figure a way to gather the methane... maybe put the mechanical milk-pumpers someplace else?)

34. Plant seeds that have been stored for more than 200 years can be coaxed into new life.

45. Cows can have regional accents, says a professor of phonetics, after studying cattle in Somerset

68. The egg came first.
(I came to this conclusion years ago)

74. Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it's cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.

98. A "lost world" exists in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of hitherto unknown animal and plant species.


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Re: 100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year. [Re: Mushouse]
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interesting.

A few of these seem like common sense to me though =/


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thallus said:
20. According to archaeologists, sex workers charged the equivalent of the price of eight glasses of red wine 2,000 years ago.



looks like the price hasnt really changed in 2000 years only now they're just bar sluts


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thallus said:
33. Half of UK children "drink" almost five litres of cooking oil every year as a result of their pack-a-day crisp habit.




Is that supposed to mean they drink a pack of crisp cooking oil every day?

That's pretty fucked up.


*edit* Nevermind, I read the story.


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Prisoner#1 said:
thallus said:
20. According to archaeologists, sex workers charged the equivalent of the price of eight glasses of red wine 2,000 years ago.



looks like the price hasnt really changed in 2000 years only now they're just bar sluts



:lol:

So true.


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