100 things we didn't know this time last year
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Something from the ppl at BBC UK.
There's 100 of them but I'll list the first 10:
1. The UK's first mobile phone call was made 20 years ago this year, when Ernie Wise rang the Vodafone head office, which was then above a curry shop in Newbury.
2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.
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.
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.
7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.
8. Devout Orthodox Jews are three times as likely to jaywalk as other people, according to an Israeli survey reported in the New Scientist. The researchers say it's possibly because religious people have less fear of death.
9. The energy used to build an average Victorian terrace house would be enough to send a car round the Earth five times, says English Heritage.
10. Humans can be born suffering from a rare condition known as "sirenomelia" or "mermaid syndrome", in which the legs are fused together to resemble the tail of a fish.
See the rest of the 90 things HERE. -
wah.Originally posted by BÃ¥seline:The researchers say it's possibly because religious people have less fear of death. -
Eh eh eh.. dun quote me on that leh.Originally posted by FireIce:wah.
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i didnt know bad things comes in hundreds.
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like bai lian jiao ah........
shen gong hu ti~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.
i still remember a thread where forumites recommended WD-40 as personal lubricant
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20 yrs ago this yr?
1. The UK's first mobile phone call was made 20 years ago this year, when Ernie Wise rang the Vodafone head office, which was then above a curry shop in Newbury.
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NKF finally busted?
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and i tot it's a malay/muslim name?Originally posted by BÃ¥seline:Something from the ppl at BBC UK.
2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales. -
Drop BBC UK a email to confirm?Originally posted by SBS9828X:20 yrs ago this yr? -
Pls see my post above.Originally posted by browniebaobao:and i tot it's a malay/muslim name? -
Not neccessarily Malay, but Muslim yesOriginally posted by browniebaobao:and i tot it's a malay/muslim name? -
It just shows that the so-called Muslim minority in Britain is not really such a "minority" anymore.Originally posted by browniebaobao:and i tot it's a malay/muslim name?
In Stratford, the east London town which is going to become the site of the new Olympic village in 2012, you would see more black and Asian faces than white ones on the streets. The same applies for many other parts of London and other cities in the UK. Britain is well on the way to becoming another multi-racial, multi-cultural society, like many other countries in Europe. -
i saw, that's why I'm puzzled.. y they like the name so much?Originally posted by BÃ¥seline:Pls see my post above. -
i didnt know electricity tariffs will go up, up and away....
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That a wave could kill so many people.
That a hurricane can flood an entire city.
That NKF's all but a fake facade. -
Muhammad is the most common name in the world.
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no wonder we donno,cause we dont need to know,not useful -.-Originally posted by BÃ¥seline:Something from the ppl at BBC UK.
There's 100 of them but I'll list the first 10:
1. The UK's first mobile phone call was made 20 years ago this year, when Ernie Wise rang the Vodafone head office, which was then above a curry shop in Newbury.
2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.
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.
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.
7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.
8. Devout Orthodox Jews are three times as likely to jaywalk as other people, according to an Israeli survey reported in the New Scientist. The researchers say it's possibly because religious people have less fear of death.
9. The energy used to build an average Victorian terrace house would be enough to send a car round the Earth five times, says English Heritage.
10. Humans can be born suffering from a rare condition known as "sirenomelia" or "mermaid syndrome", in which the legs are fused together to resemble the tail of a fish.
See the rest of the 90 things HERE. -
Wah seh. You mean 100 useless things we dont need to know, right ?
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orh.. speaking of which..Fugue seems to have disappeared.Originally posted by BÃ¥seline:The researchers say it's possibly because religious people have less fear of death.
See the rest of the 90 things HERE.