SURPRISES
- Cycling seems to increase risk of death cos of accidents, but actually severely reduces the posssibility of heart disease so is much safer than not cycling.
- Amazon monkeys eat clay as it counteract natural poisons in their diets. 25/7/08
- mosts animals can synthesise their own Vitamin C humans and other apes cannot. ( ABC science )
- Eat more than 3g per day and you'll damage your kidneys
- The night has 12 hours cos early astromers would see 12 different stars appear a it progressed
- Michael Crichton believes in paranormal so that really dents his credibility in science
- Theres not enough quinine in modern tonic to have any effect
- Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million people. gov minister said
- 100s of years ago some astronomers found that their observations and calculations contradicted their holy books assertions that the Sun orbits the Earth
- It's quite a surprise that France has 75 regional languages. That's actual languages not dialects. I suppose the UK has 6 non foreign languages besides English 1. Welsh 2. Irish Gaelic 3. Scots Gaelic 4. Manx 5. Romany 6. Cornish. My grandmother could speak some Irish Gaelic I can't.
- common cold after 5 days your antibodies are ontop of the virus so you are no longer contagious
- Paul Dukes - key spy could have stopped Bolshevik revolution if the govt had acted
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UK property is 5.8 trillion pounds down from 6.1trillion London is 774billion next 4 cities have around 70 each
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23/7/2008 a Stew Green Opinion
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