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Fri Dec-30-05 05:40 PM
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100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year (BBC News) |
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Edited on Fri Dec-30-05 05:42 PM by dolo amber
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4566526.stm14. It's possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:43 PM
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1. That's a guy with way too much time on his hands n/t |
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:43 PM
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3. While it's an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it's not an offence to throw it over someone's garden wall.
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:48 PM
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7. Yeah, that one struck me as |
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particularly British and odd... :D
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:50 PM
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9. And if you throw your crap into someone else's garden |
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will they complain? More likely they'll simply tut loudly and put it in the trash. :)
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:44 PM
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3. Ooh I just noticed your sig! |
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:48 PM
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:51 PM
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10. He truly is teh r0xx0r. |
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:44 PM
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67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
Can we say....yikes?
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:47 PM
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I'd also like to add "EWWWWWW!!" x(
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Fri Dec-30-05 05:50 PM
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8. I've never been more proud |
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23. In America it's possible to subpoena a dog.
:patriot:
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4. An average record shop needs to sell at least two copies of a CD per year to make it worth stocking, according to Wired magazine. 5. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. "I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies," she says. 6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets. 23. In America it's possible to subpoena a dog. 27. Only in France and California are under 18s banned from using sunbeds. 37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's. 61. You can bet on your own death. 65. Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, had a hand in creating the Klingon language that was used in the movies, and which Shakespeare plays were subsequently translated into. 78. One in 18 people has a third nipple. 87. Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car. 88. A single "mother" spud from southern Peru gave rise to all the varieties of potato eaten today, scientists have learned. 94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.
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