100 things we didn't know this time last year

Wobbel · 01-01-2005, 04:13 AM

Source : BBC News

"Each week the Magazine picks out snippets from the week's news - interesting newsbites that we learn along the way, and find their way into 10 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Week every Saturday. So at the end of the year, here is an almanac of those things we learned."

1. Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons.

2. Farmers plant their crops up to three weeks earlier than 15 years ago. In the 1960s, temperatures from January to March averaged 4.2C; it rose to 5.6C in the 1990s.

3. Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges.

4. Crows apparently like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades.

5. 52% of households have five or more remote controls.

6. Dame Judi Dench sends 450 Christmas presents, according to her daughter.

7. The heat generated by a laptop, and the knees-together pose needed to balance it, can damage a man's fertility.

8. Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam.

9. Some pigeons follow roads and turn off at motorway junctions to navigate their way round.

10. Ten people die on the UK's roads every day.

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01-01-2005, 04:13 AM	#1 (permalink)
Wobbel PCTT's Gatherer Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: 2004 Posts: 2,861	100 things we didn't know this time last year Source : BBC News "Each week the Magazine picks out snippets from the week's news - interesting newsbites that we learn along the way, and find their way into 10 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Week every Saturday. So at the end of the year, here is an almanac of those things we learned." 1. Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons. 2. Farmers plant their crops up to three weeks earlier than 15 years ago. In the 1960s, temperatures from January to March averaged 4.2C; it rose to 5.6C in the 1990s. 3. Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges. 4. Crows apparently like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades. 5. 52% of households have five or more remote controls. 6. Dame Judi Dench sends 450 Christmas presents, according to her daughter. 7. The heat generated by a laptop, and the knees-together pose needed to balance it, can damage a man's fertility. 8. Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam. 9. Some pigeons follow roads and turn off at motorway junctions to navigate their way round. 10. Ten people die on the UK's roads every day. Read all 100

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