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    Kitkat
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    Post by Kitkat Mon 17 Mar 2014, 14:13

    1. Elephants can differentiate between men and women, and between different ethnicities, when they hear a voice.

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    2. The line often attributed to John Lennon - "Ringo isn't the best drummer in the world. He isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles" - was actually uttered by British comedian Jasper Carrott in 1983.

    Find out more (the Times)


    3. Lone peacocks fake the noise of sexual congress to attract peahens.

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    4. Bradley Wiggins is a fan of the Archers.

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    5. There were pygmy tyrannosaurs.

    Find out more (Guardian)


    6. The rise of Genghis Khan's empire coincided with the mildest, wettest weather in more than 1,000 years, which may have kept his horses well fed.

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    7. The "five-second rule" does work - time is a significant factor in the transfer of germs from floor to food.

    Find out more (the Times)


    8. If a kitten doesn't encounter a human in a friendly context between the ages of three to eight weeks, it is more liable to go feral.

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    9. Humans make almost identical judgements of other people merely by hearing (not seeing) them say "hello".

    Find out more (New Scientist)


    10. Animals avoid power lines because they see frightening ultraviolet flashes that are invisible to humans.

    Find out more (Daily Telegraph)
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 26 Apr 2014, 08:41

    1. Czech deer still avoid the Iron Curtain.

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    2. Bath is the personal debt capital of Britain.

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    3. Putting broken pottery in plant pots doesn't aid drainage.

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    4. William Hague is a hero of former US President Jimmy Carter.

    Find out more (New Statesman)


    5. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is accompanied by a multitude of note-taking officials and generals on site visits for "on-the-spot guidance".

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    6. Women's behaviour can be unconsciously influenced by their hip size.

    Find out more (Science Daily)


    7. The mysterious quacking heard in the Southern Ocean between winter and spring is the underwater chatter of Antarctic minke whales.

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    8. In satisfaction terms, going to the library is like getting a pay rise of £1,359 while having a gym membership is like having your pay docked £1,318.

    Find out more (The Times)


    9. Antarctica was once as warm as modern-day California.

    Find out more (Smithsonian)


    10. Stone-age hunter-gatherers shunned farming.

    Find out more (New Scientist)
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    Post by Umberto Cocopop Sun 27 Apr 2014, 16:57

    KitKat wrote:1. Czech deer still avoid the Iron Curtain.

    I already knew that. yahboocat 

    The geographical preferences of Czech deer being a particular interest of mine.
    Stardust
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    Post by Stardust Thu 15 May 2014, 13:17

    KitKat wrote:Humans make almost identical judgements of other people merely by hearing (not seeing) them say "hello".
    Find out more (New Scientist)

    Have to watch that when answering the phone then.

    But then again it might be fun to use different tones of voice each time, just to muddle people's perception.
    Kitkat
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 05 Jul 2014, 13:08

    1. Detainees at Guantanamo are allowed to watch the World Cup but don't see it live - it is made available a day later to ensure nothing subversive can be conveyed.
    Find out more (FT)


    2. Kangaroos use their tails as a third leg.
    Find out more (Guardian)


    3. When making a decision, former England and Derbyshire fast bowler Devon Malcolm asks himself: "What would Margaret Beckett do?"
    Find out more (All Out Cricket)


    4. Marinading meat in beer before a barbecue cuts the number of harmful particles that form on the meat.
    Find out more (Economist)


    5. Paul Weller's guilty pleasure is to watch a rom-com with a plate of After Eights.
    Find out more (Guardian)


    6. The gene that helps Tibetans live at altitude comes from an extinct human species, the Denisovans.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    7. Wild chimps communicate 19 specific messages to one another with a "lexicon" of 66 gestures.
    Find out more


    8. Lord Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, spends up to 40 minutes a day squatting and repeating an Eastern Orthodox prayer.
    Find out more (Daily Telegraph)


    9. Hail nets - common in wine-growing areas - are banned in Burgundy.
    Find out more (Dr. Vino)


    10. Men would rather give themselves electric shocks than be left alone with their thoughts.
    Find out more (Guardian)
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    Post by Kitkat Mon 27 Oct 2014, 11:28

    1. Gladiators were mostly vegetarian.
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    2. The bass line of Lou Reed's Walk on the Wild Side cost £17.
    Find out more (Guardian)

    3. Human sexual intercourse evolved from the activities of a bony fish - Microbrachius dicki - in Scottish lakes 385 million years ago.
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    4. In 1964, the most common age of death in England and Wales was zero.
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    5. The Swiss Guard's Vatican cookbook called "Buon Appetito" is available in German but not Italian.
    Find out more (Religion News Service)

    6. Overfed mice that are exposed to UV light stop putting on weight.
    Find out more (The Express)

    7. Quality champagne tastes better out of a wine glass than a flute.
    Find out more (The Times)

    8. Posties feel they are not allowed to use the term "junk mail".
    Find out more (Financial Times)

    9. Bread with white and blue mould on it is fine to cut around and eat but black mould is dangerous.
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    10. Only 5% of adults had gum disease in Roman Briton, compared to nearly one in three adults today.
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 01 Nov 2014, 12:55

    1. America used at least 1,000 ex-Nazis as spies in the Cold War.
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    2. Scratching an itch really does make it itch more.
    Find out more (Daily Mail)


    3. Two per cent of Anglican clergy are not sure whether God is "more than a human construct".
    Find out more (The Times)


    4. New York has its own species of frog that has gone undiscovered for decades.
    Find out more (National Geographic)


    5. There have been lions in London since the 13th Century - arriving either in 1210 or 1235 - although they may have died out briefly under Henry VI in 1436.
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    6. Sage enhances your brain's performance.
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    7. The consumption of French fries and pizzas on the world's second largest cruise ship rises if there are more Americans and children on board.
    Find out more (New Yorker)


    8. The Ritz in London still uses traditional keys rather than key cards.
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    9. Danish people enjoy a long-form version of the happiness gene serotonin, while people from Britain and the US have shorter forms.
    Find out more (The Independent)


    10. Musicians have the same life expectancy as Zimbabweans.
    Find out more (The Times)
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 08 Nov 2014, 11:04

    1. Olive oil and baking powder are rubbed onto parts of the Sydney Opera House in order to maintain it.
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    2. South Korean soap operas are popular in Cuba.
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    3. A porcupine can fight off a pride of lions.
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    4. Bats jam rivals' senses in the race for food by sabotaging their sound signals.
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    5. Iran publishes three times more books than all Arab nations combined.
    Find out more (Economist)


    6. Islamic State's supposed women's wing has launched an online recipe service for jihadist wives. Millet balls are said to go well with coffee in between battles.
    Find out more (The Times)


    7. Taylor Swift sold more albums in seven days than the combined total of numbers two to 107 on the Billboard chart.
    Find out more (New York Times)


    8. Happiness nosedives as you hit middle age, but only if you live in the affluent West.
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    9. Female tilapia fish can tell how dominant a male is by smelling his pee.
    Find out more (National Geographic)


    10. The most common culprits for mistaken UFO sightings in France are Chinese lanterns.
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    Post by Kitkat Fri 05 Dec 2014, 19:17

    Sadly, the BBC News Magazine site, from where I used to get these interesting snippets, has now closed down. thumbdown

    Happily, though, they have provided us with an archive for posterity  :thumb: , which saves all the weekly "10 things we didn't know last week" entries.

    So, we can continue with our 10 things news lists - just randomly picking a week from the past.

    This week's '10 things' is from Friday, 12th April 2003.





    1. Tears do not fall in space.
    More details (Daily Telegraph)

    2. Employees who install new web browsers on their computers perform better on average than those who use the default pre-installed browser that came with their machine.
    More details (The Economist])

    3. Methane eating micro-organisms carry out a deep clean of the oceans after an oil spill.
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    4. Scientists are conducting searches for signs of extraterrestrial engineering.
    More details (New Scientist)

    5. The most popular place to hide valuables is a sock drawer.
    More details (Daily Telegraph)

    6. Fractions of virtual currency Bitcoin are known as satoshis.
    More details (The Economist)

    7. People in China hold "fake funerals" for themselves, so they can "enjoy" the day.
    More details (Metro)

    8. Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak belonged to a group of hackers and hobbyists called the Homebrew Computer Club.
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    9. Brains can be rendered transparent.
    More details (Smithsonian Magazine)

    10. Countries with the death penalty are now outnumbered by about five to one, by those who have abolished it.
    More details (Guardian)
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    Post by Kitkat Mon 22 Dec 2014, 16:56

    update   It's back again!  shrug  

    Perhaps I just dreamt it after all ........  surprised





    1. The US National Security Agency used to have a Clown Club for staff members.
    Find out more (Slashgear)


    2. There is a deep sea snail named after Joe Strummer.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    3. Main characters are more likely to die in children's cartoons than in films for adults.
    Find out more (BMJ)


    4. The origins of Monopoly go back decades earlier than previously thought to the Landlord's Game, patented in 1904 by the feminist Lizzie Magie. It had a square board with nine rectangular spaces on each side between corners labelled "Go to Jail" and "Public Park".
    Find out more (Smithsonian)


    5. There is more water locked deep within the Earth's crust than previously thought - at about 11 million cubic kilometres it's more than all the world's rivers, swamps and lakes put together.
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    6. The Star Wars character Han Solo was partly based on Francis Ford Coppola.
    Find out more (New Yorker)


    7. The late Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe had a long-running fantasy about marrying Princess Margaret.
    Find out more (Daily Telegraph)


    8. Christingle started in Germany in 1747 but didn't reach the UK until 1968.
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    9. The three escapees whose story was told in the movie Escape From Alcatraz (and who were never found) could have survived if they set off after midnight but before 01:00.
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    10. Arctic ground squirrels hasten the release of greenhouse gases.
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    1. Jamaica, Colombia and Saint Lucia are the only countries in the world where a woman is more likely to be a boss than a man.
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    2. No-one has won a Spot The Ball competition for 10 years.
    Find out more (Guardian)


    3. You can buy a Lycra outfit for a camel.
    Find out more (Niume)


    4. Shredded Wheat's early packaging recommended serving it with a poached egg.
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    5. Edwards County, Texas, has roughly one person and 22 goats per square mile.
    Find out more (Smithsonian)


    6. One in 10 of Britain's train carriages flush toilet waste straight onto the railway tracks.
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    7. Men are less promiscuous when women are scarce.
    Find out more (the Times)


    8. A recently published image of a thresher shark giving birth may be the only photograph ever taken of an oceanic shark in labour.
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    9. About 30 copies of Charlie Hebdo are sold in the UK in a normal week.
    Find out more (Guardian)


    10. Thundersnow is like a thunderstorm but brighter, less noisy and with snow instead of rain.
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 24 Jan 2015, 07:52

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    1. Couples in the Danish town of Thisted are having more babies to keep public services going.
    Find out more (Independent)


    2. Women are almost two thirds more likely than men to believe in God.
    Find out more (Telegraph)


    3. MI5 bars applicants with visible tattoos.
    Find out more (Guardian)


    4. Nando's is one of the biggest buyers of contemporary South African art.
    Find out more (FT)


    5. The average life of a web page is about a hundred days.
    Find out more (New Yorker)


    6. It Is Illegal to Kiss With a Moustache in Nevada, and Other Crazy U.S. Laws
    Find out more (Slate)


    7. The Greater London Authority owns a cast iron, Grade II-listed pissoir called the Rotunda, although its present whereabouts is unknown.
    Find out more (the Times)


    8. The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a decline in the number of wild boar, brown bear and moose in most regions of Russia.
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    9. Dagenham is Britain's most burgled town.
    Find out more (Daily Telegraph)


    10. The sewage from a city of a million people contains about $13m (£8.66m) worth of metal a year - about a fifth of the value comes from silver and gold.
    Find out more (Quartz)
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    Post by Whiskers Sat 24 Jan 2015, 20:11

    Urrr ... note to self. If you ever decide to move home DONT go to live in America,

    where not only is it illegal to kiss a man with a moustache in Nevada bawl
    but in New Jersey a person can be arrested for slurping soup sigh
    in Oregon, "one may not test their physical endurance while driving a car on a highway"! Shocked  no comment
    in Kentucky, paint your lawn red and you'll end up with a red bottom   spank
    In Ohio, it’s illegal to get undressed in front of a man’s portrait  shame
    and horror of horrors --- in Atlanta you can be arrested for putting your ice-cream cone in your back pocket!   wtfcat
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 07 Mar 2015, 16:51

    1. People tend to unconsciously sniff their hands after a handshake.
    Find out more (New Scientist)

    2. The full name of Super Mario's pet dinosaur Yoshi is T Yoshisaur Munchakoopas.
    Find out more (Fast Company)

    3. A swarm of red bees was responsible for the discovery of New York's biggest marijuana farm.
    Find out more (The Daily Beast)

    4. BBC Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet once curled at provincial level in Canada.
    Find out more (The Guardian)

    5. During the Nazi occupation of France, Wallis Simpson got American diplomats to rescue her favourite Nile green swimsuit from the Windsors' rented villa on the Cote d'Azur.
    Find out more (New York Post)

    6. Dogs are less stressed when classical music is played to them.
    Find out more (Daily Express)

    7. An athlete named Reg Spiers posted himself from London, UK, to Perth, Australia in the mid-1960s in a wooden crate.
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    8. King Arthur may have been Glaswegian.
    Find out more (The National)

    9. Fewer large US companies are run by women than by men named John.
    Find out more (New York Times)

    10. Lions can open car doors.
    Find out more (The Independent)
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    Post by Kitkat Mon 16 Mar 2015, 12:08

    1. Mares prefer stallions with deep whinnies.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    2. UK Chancellor George Osborne is amused by the idea of visiting a hard hat factory.
    Find out more (Financial Times)


    3. Scotland has the terroir for growing the world's finest tea.
    Find out more (the Times)


    4. Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela has more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the world.
    Find out more (Guardian)


    5. Winston Churchill tried to give Lincoln Cathedral's copy of Magna Carta to the US to help convince the Americans to join World War Two.
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    6. Putting a lightbulb inside a fruit or vegetable shows that they all emit light differently - rough surfaced items like cauliflower create the most interesting effect.
    Find out more (Smithsonian)


    7. A man-sized lobster lived 480 million years ago.
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    8. At Hotel Football, run by ex-Manchester United players, Gary Neville is represented in the bathroom by blackcurrant extract shampoo while brother Phil is a bar of soap.
    Find out more (Financial Times)


    9. Chameleons change colour by rearranging crystals rather than dispersing pigments.
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    10. The Finnish prime minister has a 95-year-old great uncle who skis every Saturday and Sunday.
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    Post by Kitkat Mon 04 May 2015, 13:12

    1. Shipwrecked 170-year-old champagne tastes "grilled, spicy, smoky, and leathery".
    Find out more (Smithsonian)


    2. The first sports bra was made from two jock straps.
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    3. Your body odour genes may make you tastier to mosquitoes.
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    4. You can make perfume from rain.
    Find out more (Atlantic)


    5. Nearly half of Americans - 150 million people - live in earthquake risk zones.
    Find out more (LA Times)


    6. The ocean economy is valued at $24tn, the seventh largest in the world.
    Find out more (Guardian)


    7. Chewing something can partially excise "earworms".
    Find out more (the Times)


    8. Alex Salmond changed his signature after being told off by the Queen for having messy writing.
    Find out more (Telegraph)


    9. Vultures surf on the heat of power plants.
    Find out more (Science)


    10. "Roadman" is northern slang for someone who thoroughly knows his area.
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 23 May 2015, 22:44

    1. Tom Cruise advised Nasa on how to design their website.
    Find out more (Telegraph)


    2. Drug dealers in Marseille offer loyalty cards.
    Find out more (The Local)


    3.Police at the US Capitol receive training to prevent them leaving their guns behind when they go to the toilet.
    Find out more (The Hill)


    4. "Cazh", meaning casual, is now acceptable in Scrabble - as well as "lolz","shizzle" and "bezzy".
    Find out more (Mirror)


    5. It's possible to brew morphine using a home-made beer kit.
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    6. Young blood can mend old broken bones.
    Find out more (Smithsonian Magazine)


    7. Crows are protective of their tools - they tuck them under their toes or hide them in holes - even more so when higher up a tree.
    Find out more (Science News)


    8. The modern strawberry was born after a French spy brought back a South American species from Chile in 1712.
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    9. Wives of the super-rich in New York sometimes earn bonuses from their husbands for getting the children into prestigious schools or managing the home budget well.
    Find out more (New York Times)


    10. Stone tools existed before the earliest humans.
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 30 May 2015, 08:44

    1. The worst times to drink coffee are between 08:00-09:00, 12:00-13:00 and 17:30-18:30. The best is about an hour after waking up, regardless of the time.
    Find out more (AsapSCIENCE)


    2. South African President Jacob Zuma's state-funded £215,000 swimming pool at his home was for "security".
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    3. The design of a park near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport is landscaped to cut down noise pollution.
    Find out more (Smithsonian Magazine)


    4. The chances of a successful bank robbery are higher in the morning - but it's also among the least lucrative crimes.
    Find out more


    5. British people reach job contentment at 32 - after an average of three job moves - and value an easy daily commute the highest.
    Find out more (Independent)


    6. Sleep training can reduce people's unconscious racist or sexist bias.
    Find out more


    7. Spiders serenade their mates, using leaves to transmit their courtship song.
    Find out more


    8. "Manspreading" can get you arrested in New York.
    Find out more (New York Magazine)


    9. A text message of specific Arabic characters will crash iPhones if the notifications are turned on.
    Find out more


    10. Professional dog walkers in the UK are earning an average of £26,500 - more than nurses.
    Find out more (The Times)
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    1. Whisky tastes different when it matures in space.
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    2. People were making porridge 32,000 years ago.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    3. The simpler and more repetitive a song's lyrics, the more likely it is to reach number one in the Billboard Hot 100, debut in the top 40 and climb the chart more rapidly.
    Find out more (Psychology Today)


    4. At least three earthquakes strike the UK every year because of human activity.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    5. Sperm whales have different dialects.
    Find out more (Sydney Morning Herald)


    6. There is a fish in Australia called the "blue bastard".
    Find out more (Mashable)


    7. It's possible to trick a driverless car into thinking it's about to crash using lasers.
    Find out more (The Telegraph)


    8. Obesity could lower the risk of developing arthritis in men.
    Find out more (The Times)


    9. The producer who was Gordon the Gopher's puppeteer is now the BBC's head of editorial standards.
    Find out more


    10. Children are the most fun to be around at the age of five.
    Find out more (Daily Mail)




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    Post by Kitkat Fri 23 Oct 2015, 12:25

    1. People who like their coffee black are more likely to be psychopaths.
    Find out more (Huffington Post)


    2. Traditional societies sleep on average for six hours and 25 minutes.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    3. It was normal for women in 18th and 19th-century China to have two husbands.
    Find out more (Quartz)


    4. American toddlers are shooting one person a week on average in 2015.
    Find out more (Washington Post)


    5. People from Glasgow have the sexiest accent in the UK, according to Americans.
    Find out more (The Independent) 

    6. The US still has not eradicated the plague.
    Find out more


    7. China is home to more billionaires than the US.
    Find out more (The Telegraph)


    8. Bees are attracted to caffeinated plants.
    Find out more

    9. The first humans to leave Africa went to China not Europe.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    10. People with tattoos are more aggressive and rebellious.
    Find out more (The Daily Mail)
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    1. People who swear have larger vocabularies.
    Find out more (Toronto Sun)


    2. It's possible to trick the brain into thinking it can hear Mariah Carey sing All I Want For Christmas Is You.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    3. Most people who were dollar billionaires in 1995 aren't billionaires any more.
    Find out more (Bloomberg)


    4. The European Space Agency has only ever held three recruitment rounds - in 1978, 1992 and 2008.
    Find out more


    5. People asked Google "What is 0 divided by 0?" in 2015 more than "What is Isis?"
    Find out more (Mashable)


    6. The average American has 7.31 missing teeth, while the equivalent English person has 6.97.
    Find out more (British Medical Journal)


    7. You can buy a bed that will swallow you in the event of an earthquake.
    Find out more (Techno Buffalo)


    8. Lettuce requires three times the emissions per calorie to produce as bacon.
    Find out more (The Independent)


    9. Among the USA's 1,000 most senior medical academics, there are more moustaches than women.
    Find out more (Washington Post)


    10. There have been 727 references to Bob Dylan in scientific papers published since the 1970s.
    Find out more (the Times)
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    1. Shakespeare's skull may have been looted.
    Find out more

    2. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani appears to support the rights of goldfish.
    Find out more

    3. The "best public toilet in the South Pacific" is a tourist attraction in Vanuatu.
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    4. JK Rowling was advised to take a writing course when she sent a manuscript to publishers under a false name.
    Find out more

    5. Human noses are less effective at air conditioning the body than the noses of chimpanzees and macaques.
    Find out more (New Scientist)

    6. Shoe box-shaped concert halls make audiences feel more emotional.
    Find out more (Daily Telegraph)

    7. Hamlet was performed on a ship off the coast of what is now Sierra Leone five years after its London debut.
    Find out more (New York Times)

    8. Nobody noticed when Kraft changed its macaroni and cheese recipe.
    Find out more (Washington Post)

    9. Female burying beetles zap their male partners with an anti-aphrodisiac to stop them wanting sex.
    Find out more (Science News)

    10. In Dublin, you can pay for coffee with a poem on March 21.
    Find out more (Journal.ie)
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    1.
    Mosquitoes carrying malaria are repelled by chickens.
    Find out more (Gizmodo)


    2. The original Bramley apple tree is still alive at the age of 207… but is suffering from a fungal infection.
    Find out more


    3. Protestors at the Republican convention were banned from carrying tennis balls but were allowed to carry guns.
    Find out more (Huffington Post)


    4. In some remote areas of Malawi, parents pay a man to have sex with their daughters at the age of 12 or 13.
    Find out more


    5. In the run-up to the 2015 general election, Nick Clegg spent weeks recreating a Carly Rae Jepson music video.
    Find out more (The Times)


    6. Whales grieve for friends and relatives and hold vigils.
    Find out more (National Geographic)


    7. People are selling their mobile phone videos of shootings to licensing companies - for a profit share.
    Find out more (Fortune)


    8. Bees spit water at each other in hot weather.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    9. It's possible to serve draught beer on a plane - but the physics are tricky.
    Find out more (Quartz)


    10. You can't be nominated for a guest actor Emmy if you've been in a show for half of the season or more.
    Find out more (The Guardian)
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    Post by Whiskers Sat 23 Jul 2016, 21:31

    6. Whales grieve for friends and relatives and hold vigils.

    It takes a study for scientists to realise that animals grieve and show emotions?!  wtfcat   facepalm
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 27 Aug 2016, 11:33

    1. In the Grand Canyon, the US postal service delivers mail by mule.
    Find out more (Smithsonian)


    2. It would take 112,000 years to fly to the nearest Earth-like world travelling at 25,000mph.
    Find out more (Seeker)


    3. Woody Allen spends $100 a week on lottery tickets.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    4. Lawyers in the US are forbidden from using terms like "honey" and "darling" in court.
    Find out more (New York Times)


    5. Action movie star Jason Statham has kicked more people in his films than he has punched.
    Find out more (Gizmodo)


    6. Elephants can't stand chilli powder.
    Find out more (Washington Post)


    7. The winner of the First Lady cookie bake off has predicted the Presidential winner each year since 1992 - except in 2008.
    Find out more (Mic)


    8. There's a strong chance the most hated word in the English language is "moist".
    Find out more


    9. Dolls designed to put girls off pregnancy may encourage them instead.
    Find out more


    10. Japanese companies pay handsome men to make staff cry.
    Find out more
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 17 Sep 2016, 12:44

    1. Dolphins appear to talk in sentences.
    Find out more (International Business Times)

    2. New Zealand has a sperm shortage.
    Find out more (The Guardian)

    3.
    There is a drone-racing league.
    Find out more (New York Times)

    4.
    Doctors estimate dying patients will live twice as long as they actually do.
    Find out more (The Times)

    5.
    Most beer contains a product made from the swim bladder of fish.
    Find out more

    6.
    How drunk you think you are depends on how drunk your friends are.
    Find out more (New York Magazine)

    7.
    A Harvester restaurant in Gloucester, England, already has its Christmas decorations up.
    Find out more (Daily Telegraph)

    8.
    You can earn a washing machine by picking 10 tonnes of cotton in eastern Uzbekistan.
    Find out more

    9.
    There's an "elderly Olympics" in which residents of Swiss retirement homes compete against each other.
    Find out more

    10.
    Diego, a 100-year-old tortoise, has fathered about 800 offspring on his native Galapagos Archipelago, helping save his species from extinction.
    Find out more
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    Post by Kitkat Wed 15 Feb 2017, 15:55

    1. Johnny Depp is alleged to have spent $30,000 a month on fine wine.
    Find out more


    2. The Great Scottish half-marathon course is 150m too short.
    Find out more


    3. You can carry one falcon in economy class on a Qatar Airways flight.
    Find out more (The Seeker)


    4. Galactic X-rays could point to dark matter proof.
    Find out more


    5. A dating app is being developed to help orangutans find a love match.
    Find out more (The Times (paywall)


    6. A man sold his back tattoo to German art collector, for 150,000 Euros.
    Find out more


    7. Being 'hangry' actually exists.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    8. A virtual reality game could help detect schizophrenia.
    Find out more (Evening Standard)


    9. 31 small cat species hail from seven distinct lineages.
    Find out more (National Geographic)


    10. David Beckham owns over 1000 pairs of football boots.
    Find out more
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    Post by Stardust Wed 15 Feb 2017, 16:40

    Kitkat wrote:1. Johnny Depp is alleged to have spent $30,000 a month on fine wine.
    I've read several reports that Johnny Depp is bankrupt or at least in financial difficulty. If that's true and he's daft enough to spend $30,000 a month on fine wine then it serves him right.
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 19 Feb 2017, 12:18

    Stardust wrote:
    Kitkat wrote:1. Johnny Depp is alleged to have spent $30,000 a month on fine wine.
    I've read several reports that Johnny Depp is bankrupt or at least in financial difficulty. If that's true and he's daft enough to spend $30,000 a month on fine wine then it serves him right.


    My heart bleeds .....  cheesy

    http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/jennifer-selway/763041/johnny-depp-wealthy-still-unhappy?utm_source=traffic.outbrain&utm_medium=traffic.outbrain&utm_term=traffic.outbrain&utm_content=traffic.outbrain&utm_campaign=traffic.outbrain

    He has 45 classic cars and a luxury yacht. He won’t fly anywhere except by private plane and rents a Gulfstream GV at a cost of $200,000 a month.
    He owns over 70 valuable guitars. He buys jewellery, Andy Warhols and Hollywood memorabilia. He spends over $30,000 a month on “fine” wines. He blew $3million blasting his friend Hunter S Thompson’s ashes into space.
    He has 14 homes including a French chateau, a chain of islands in the Bahamas and several homes in California. He has an army of staff and 24-hour security.
    This all costs him $2million a month and he still has a substantial amount notched up on his Visa card. He also looks perpetually miserable.
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    Post by Stardust Mon 20 Feb 2017, 14:58

    He should have stayed with Vanessa. His loss.
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    Post by Kitkat Tue 14 Mar 2017, 11:33

    1. Nicole Kidman has a unique way of clapping.
    Find out more

    2. Bees can play
    football and score goals.
    Find out more

    3. A loaf of
    bread emits half a kilo of CO2.
    Find out more (New Scientist)

    4. A quarter of
    all McDonald's Filet-o-fish sandwiches are sold during Lent.
    Find out more (Time)

    5. Scientists can grow
    human cells on apples.
    Find out more

    6. Termites bang their
    heads to mimic ant footsteps.
    Find out more (New Scientist)

    7. People who have
    sex are happier due to the higher levels of "affectionate touch".
    Find out more (Independent)

    8. Rihanna travels with
    a case containing her own personal supply of spices.
    Find out more (bon appetit)

    9. A public swimming
    pool typically contains 75 litres of urine.
    Find out more (the Guardian)

    10. Even school goldfish
    get a flaming Viking boat burial in Orkney.
    Find out more
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 01 Apr 2017, 09:54

    1. Tyrannosaurus Rex was a sensitive lover
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    2. Eating salt makes you need the loo more in the night
    Find out more


    3. Canada is going to legalise marijuana "next July"
    Find out more (CBC)


    4. The new £1 coins have a "hidden" security feature
    Find out more


    5. Mice have been living alongside humans for 15,000 years
    Find out more


    6. Eating fruit may be the key to the evolution of bigger brains in humans
    Find out more (Science Magazine)


    7. Gary Barlow is going to be in the next Star Wars film
    Find out more


    8. Ketchup and brown sauce should be kept in the fridge
    Find out more (Evening Standard)


    9. You will no longer be able to get heartburn and indigestion drugs on the NHS
    Find out more (The Telegraph)


    10. Playing Tetris can help the recovery of trauma victims
    Find out more (Washington Post)
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 22 Apr 2017, 09:12

    1. Serena Williams won a grand slam when she was 10 weeks pregnant.
    Find out more


    2. An Austrian town has had a resident hermit since 1664.
    Find out more (National Post)


    3. Netflix subscribers have spent more than half a billion hours watching Adam Sandler films.
    Find out more (Salon.com)


    4. Creative people physically see and process the world differently.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    5. "Dalek", "TARDIS" and "cybermen" are all in the Oxford English Dictionary.
    Find out more


    6. There are 20,000 objects larger than 10cm flying around Earth, which are big enough to cause "catastrophic damage".
    Find out more (Digital Trends)


    7. Cycling to work could "halve your cancer risk".
    Find out more


    8. Prince used to travel under the name Peter Bravestrong.
    Find out more


    9. Scientists have found live specimens of the rare giant shipworm for the first time.
    Find out more


    10. You can take a course studying Dolly Parton at the University of Tennessee.
    Find out more (NY Times)
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 29 Apr 2017, 10:40

    1. Miley Cyrus is in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2.
    Find out more


    2. There are still nine Blockbusters open in Alaska.
    Find out more (5 News)


    3. Voice assistants like Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa can't understand Icelandic.
    Find out more (Mashable)


    4. Scientists have discovered a caterpillar that can eat plastic.
    Find out more


    5. There's a real life "Ironman" and he's British.
    Find out more (The Telegraph)


    6. Brewdog employees will get one week's paid leave if they adopt a puppy or rescue dog.
    Find out more


    7. There's a crisp shortage in Japan.
    Find out more


    8. A 'plastic bag' womb can keep baby lambs alive.
    Find out more


    9. Ivanka Trump's earrings don't match.
    Find out more (Daily Mail)


    10. You can learn the Game of Thrones language Dothraki at university.
    Find out more (The Independent)
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 20 May 2017, 08:39

    1. A Star Wars villain has the fastest-rising baby name in the US.
    Find out more (The Independent)


    2. Climate change is turning Antarctica green, say researchers.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    3. Atheists maybe more intelligent than religious people, according to a study.
    Find out more (Indy100)


    4. There are only 7,100 cheetahs left in the wild.
    Find out more (National Geographic)


    5. Beauty sleep actually works.
    Find out more


    6. We could be finally getting a redhead emoji.
    Find out more (The Telegraph)


    7. A London private school may let boys wear skirts.
    Find out more


    8. "Fat but fit" is a myth according to scientists.
    Find out more


    9. The King of the Netherlands secretly piloted KLM passenger flights for 21 years.
    Find out more (CNN)


    10. Paul McCartney is going to be in the forthcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film.
    Find out more (Empire)
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 27 May 2017, 14:14

    1. Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson "announced" he will run for president in 2020.
    Find out more


    2. Mouse sperm can survive in space.
    Find out more


    3. There are now pink pineapples.
    Find out more (Evening Standard)


    4. Whales only became huge 2-3 million years ago.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    5. Vic Reeves is going to be in Corrie.
    Find out more


    6. We are running out of sand.
    Find out more (New Yorker)


    7. Even dead flamingos can stand on one leg.
    Find out more


    8. Robotic police officers are about to be deployed in Dubai.
    Find out more (Huffington Post)


    9. Big cats like the smell of Chanel perfume.
    Find out more (Kent Live)


    10. Your brain has a sixth sense that "predicts" the future.
    Find out more (Huffington Post)
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 11 Jun 2017, 12:16

    1. Barack Obama wore the same dinner jacket and shoes for eight years.
    Find out more (The Independent)

    2. A plague of rats
    has hit an Island in the Indian Ocean - prompting fears of an impending earthquake.
    Find out more (Daily Mail)

    3. Walmart has asked
    employees to deliver online orders to customers on their way home from work.
    Find out more (The Guardian)

    4. Thom Yorke 'nearly
    walked off stage' during Radiohead's 1997 Glastonbury performance.
    Find out more

    5. Your printer might
    be adding a secret code to all your documents.
    Find out more

    6. Wolves have a
    sense of "fair play".
    Find out more

    7. There's a schoolboy
    with a higher IQ than Stephen Hawking.
    Find out more

    8. 146 people have
    died in the Isle of Man TT motorcycle race.
    Find out more (New York Times)

    9. Scientists have found
    a hellish planet where the "surface" temperature is over 4,000C.
    Find out more

    10.
    Ed Sheeran can fit 55 Maltesers in his mouth.
    Find out more (The Sun)
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    Post by Kitkat Sat 17 Jun 2017, 10:45

    1. Usain Bolt will star in the popular video game Pro Evolution Soccer 2018.
    Find out more


    2. Hedgehogs can inflate to double their normal size.
    Find out more


    3. Jeremy Corbyn's son looks like Elijah Wood.
    Find out more (The Mirror)


    4. Renault sells nail polishes so female drivers can match their cars.
    Find out more (The Pool)


    5. You can distract some spiders with a laser pointer - preferably a red one.
    Find out more (The Atlantic)


    6. There's an eight-year-old boy in India who is 6ft 6ins tall.
    Find out more (The Mirror)


    7. 11. First-born sons are 24% more likely to land top managerial positions than their younger male siblings - according to a German study.
    Find out more (Indy100)


    8. When Batman actor Adam West - who has died - fell on hard times in the 1970s, he agreed to be fired out of giant cannon at a town carnival.
    Find out more (Vulture)


    9. If you buy McDonald's' best burger in France, you can now eat it with a knife and fork.
    Find out more (The Local, France)


    10. Glastonbury pays bands 'less than 10%' of what they'd bring in from other festivals.
    Find out more
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 25 Jun 2017, 10:36

    1. Brian Cant's audition for Play School involved him sitting in a cardboard box
    Find out more


    2. Some British consumers in the 1960s enjoyed eating avocados with custard
    Find out more


    3. Next year 1 billion people will be aged over 60
    Find out more (Guardian)


    4. There are 3.7 sugar cubes in a serving of Frosties (Kellogg's)
    Find out more


    5. You should not eat mangoes in a heatwave
    Find out more


    6. Canada has released a glow in the dark coin
    Find out more (Guardian)


    7. A baby born on a plane was given free flights for life
    Find out more (Metro)


    8. Older fathers have 'geekier sons'
    Find out more


    9. Costa Rica's president accidentally ate a wasp during an interview on live TV
    Find out more (Mirror)


    10. An Italian airport is defying the liquid carry-on rules, and letting passengers travel with large jars of pesto
    Find out more (Telegraph)
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 02 Jul 2017, 08:55

    1. Rihanna's secret boyfriend has been revealed
    Find out more (The Telegraph)


    2. Middle-aged office workers apparently spend more time sitting down than pensioners
    Find out more (Mail Online)


    3. Cambridge has been ranked as the most-vibrant place to shop in the UK
    Find out more


    4. Sweden has the lowest proportion of ATM machines in western Europe
    Find out more


    5. China is building a 40,000 tree "forest city" to fight air pollution
    Find out more (Indy 100)


    6. Dutch students have powered a bus with ant venom
    Find out more


    7. People throw away eight million disposable nappies every day in the UK
    Find out more


    8. Artists can now only have a maximum of three songs in the Top 100 Singles chart
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    9. Californian solar firms are making so much energy that they are paying energy companies in other US states to take it
    Find out more


    10. Robot brickies could mean building sites become "human free" zones by 2050
    Find out more (The Mirror)
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 09 Jul 2017, 11:23

    1. More than eight billion cans of Spam have been sold over the past 80 years.
    Find out more (Live science)

    2. Sports Direct's Mike Ashley allegedly "vomited into fireplace" at a business meeting in a pub - a court has heard.
    Find out more (The Guardian)

    3. Rice
    - when prepared in the right way - can bounce.
    Find out more

    4. The world's most detailed scan
    of the brain's internal wiring has been produced by scientists at Cardiff University.
    Find out more

    5. The asteroid strike
    that killed off the dinosaurs could be the reason there are so many different kinds of frogs.
    Find out more

    6. More than a third of Premier League
    football fans watch matches live online via unofficial streams.
    Find out more

    7. The grandson of the first-ever NHS patient
    married the granddaughter of the prime minister whose government founded the service in 1948.
    Find out more (Indy100)

    8. Roman concrete
    grows stronger over time.
    Find out more

    9. If Facebook were a religion,
    it would be the second largest in the world (after Christianity).
    Find out more (Washington Post)

    10. Just 150 passengers
    use Wales's quietest train station each year.
    Find out more
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 23 Jul 2017, 10:39

    1. Apparently, flight attendants don't like passengers asking for diet coke because it takes too long to pour.
    Find out more (The Mirror)


    2. A security robot "drowned" in a fountain in Washington DC.
    Find out more


    3. A man who earned a reputation as Britain's rudest bookseller, and charged customers a 50p browsing fee, is quitting his shop.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    4. Daniel Radcliffe came to the aid of a mugging victim.
    Find out more


    5. There's a real-life Rapunzel in France - and she's only 9 months old.
    Find out more (The Sun)


    6. The frozen bodies of a Swiss couple who went missing 75 years ago in the Alps have been found on a shrinking glacier.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    7. Russia's consumer rights watchdog is to investigate fidget spinners amid claims on state TV that the gadgets could be used by political opponents to lure children.
    Find out more (Daily Telegraph)


    8. A nurse has quit the NHS over parking fines, saying she got an £80 ticket after working late to treat a patient who went into cardiac arrest.
    Find out more (The Independent)


    9. Surgeons have removed 27 contact lenses from the eye of a woman who had been admitted to hospital for routine cataract surgery.
    Find out more


    10. The UK's "most dangerous" bus stop has been revealed - and it's infested with 50p-sized false widow spiders.
    Find out more (Daily Mirror)
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 30 Jul 2017, 13:33

    1. Puppies have a stroppy teenage phase around the age of eight months.
    Find out more (The Debrief)

    2. More than half of the UK's international airports lack free drinking water fountains.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    3. More than 2,500 grocery products have been subject to so-called "shrinkflation" in the past five years.
    Find out more


    4. One fifth of the world's superyachts are made in the Italian coastal town of Viareggio.
    Find out more


    5. The US military spends almost $42m (£32m) a year on the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra.
    Find out more


    6. There is a bin which turns kitchen waste into plant food.
    Find out more (Dezeen)


    7. More than one quarter of food outlets in England are takeaways.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    8. Forty per cent of America's gun owners have not received formal firearms training.
    Find out more (Mother Jones)


    9. The Time Lord's name is Doctor Who, not the Doctor.
    Find out more


    10. There is a dating app just for verified Twitter users.
    Find out more (Buzzfeed)
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 06 Aug 2017, 13:19

    1. Caterpillars in Lancashire are turning into "exploding zombies".
    Find out more


    2. Emailing is still the most common internet activity in Britain.
    Find out more


    3. A group of walkers in the Cotswolds claimed they were stalked by a "growling" big cat for more than a mile.
    Find out more (Gloucestershire Live)


    4. About 10 million Britons may have skipped sleep or made themselves tired the next day because they were binge-watching TV.
    Find out more


    5. Driverless buses are now on the streets of the Estonian capital Tallinn - there have been "no major incidents" but a number of near misses.
    Find out more


    6. Bees understand the concept of zero.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    6. An electric pedal bike share scheme has begun in the hilly streets of the Portuguese capital Lisbon.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    8. A new water-filled container could reduce the weight of washing machines by a third.
    Find out more (The Telegraph)


    9. The UK's busiest roads could be covered with special "tunnels" to absorb pollution and improve air quality.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    10. Food banks are running out of provisions because hungry children don't have access to free school meals during the summer holidays.
    Find out more (The Independent)
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    1. 'Cat's eyes' in Suffolk are to be renamed 'road studs' after confused foreign tourists thought they were made from real cats.
    Find out more (Daily Mail)  Oh, for pity's sake ... schaterlach

    2. The name Pakistan is an acronym, and was first coined - without the letter 'i' - in 1933.
    Find out more


    3. A rare white moose has been captured on film in Sweden.
    Find out more (The Independent)


    4. Scientists have found the missing link between plant-eating and carnivorous dinosaurs.
    Find out more


    5. Female characters get all the worst lines in films, despite making the most money in lead roles - says a study of 1000 film scripts.
    Find out more (The Independent)


    6. You may have been pronouncing Primark wrong.
    Find out more (The Evening Standard)


    7. In some US states it's illegal to take down monuments or change street names honouring the Confederacy.
    Find out more (Los Angeles Times)


    8. Goldie collects kimonos.
    Find out more (The Evening Standard)


    9. There are more than 10,000 motorists are allowed on the roads with 12 points on their licence.
    Find out more


    10. A TV studio is reported to be in talks to adapt "The Bad Boys of Brexit" - a book about the political campaigning around Brexit.
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 27 Aug 2017, 15:25

    1. Eminem says he's planning on moving to Scotland.
    Find out more (The Scottish Sun)


    2. Two golden phonograph records were almost thrown off space probes Voyager 1 and 2 due to a rogue inscription.
    Find out more (New Yorker)


    3. Big Ben at Legoland is also silencing its chimes.
    Find out more (Evening Standard)


    4. Taylor Swift's latest single contains "an interpolation of a melody" from Right Said Fred's 1991 hit "I'm Too Sexy".
    Find out more


    5. Monkeys can see faces in inanimate objects.
    Find out more (New Scientist)


    6. The Babylonians developed their own form of trigonometry 3,700 years ago and it is "superior" to modern day methods.
    Find out more (The Independent)


    7. Driverless lorries are coming to UK roads.
    Find out more


    8. Climate change could make fish shrink in size by 30%.
    Find out more (Mail Online)


    9. French president Emmanuel Macron has racked up a €26,000 (nearly £24,000) make-up bill since May.
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    10. £203,583 in loose change was found on public transport in London over the past year, according to Transport For London.
    Find out more (The Evening Standard)
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    Post by Kitkat Sun 03 Sep 2017, 11:55

    1. The fossil of a marine reptile "re-discovered" in a museum is the largest of its kind on record
    Find out more (National Geographic)


    2. South Africa's original language has only three remaining speakers
    Find out more


    3. Surgery waiting times in Wales are up 400%
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    4. Information from the Cassini spacecraft hints that Saturn's spectacular rings may be relatively young
    Find out more (Daily Mail)


    5. Smell may play a key role when birds are navigating long distances over the oceans
    Find out more (Science Daily)


    6. A new "hotel" experience is being planned for overnight trains to Scotland
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    7. A fictional country used as part of military exercises in Belarus now has a foreign ministry, flag, history and Wikipedia page
    Find out more


    8. Elephant grass could significantly reduce the construction industry's impact on the environment
    Find out more


    9. The US has approved the first treatment to redesign a patient's own immune system so that it attacks cancer
    Find out more (Daily Telegraph)


    10. Researchers have discovered 381 new species of plants and animals during a two-year study in the Amazon
    Find out more
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    Post by Whiskers Mon 04 Sep 2017, 14:31

    6. A new "hotel" experience is being planned for overnight trains to Scotland
    Find out more (The Guardian)


    Megabus had a great sleeper coach and train service.  Such a shame they have now stopped doing it.

    https://uk.megabus.com/products/megabus-gold

    It was very basic, but you didnt expect 5-star creature comforts at those prices.  I'm thinking this new "hotel service" might be costing an arm and a leg, so the people who did use the Megabus and miss it wont be taking advantage of this new service.  Could be wrong though, maybe people will prefer to travel in style and wont mind paying for it.

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