10 Things You May Not Have Known?
Here are this week’s 10 things from the news you may not have known. It’s a pretty poor selection this week, but my favourite, if you’ve seen the size of him is No.7…gently does it Geoff!
1. E-mail addresses beginning with with “A”, “M” or “S” get more spam than those starting with “Q” or “Z”.
More details2. Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie lived off the proceeds of cocaine while in exile in South America.
More details3. Ping-pong was originally called ping-pong, not whiff-whaff, as London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, publicly claimed at the Beijing Olympics.
More details (the Times)4. Urban gulls produce three times as many eggs as their coastal counterparts.
More details5. One of the scientists involved in developing the £5bn Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Switzerland, was the keyboardist with the chart-topping group D-Ream.
More details (the Independent)6. Water is naturally present in aviation fuel.
More details7. Former World’s Strongest Man, Geoff Capes, is an avid budgerigar keeper – owning more than 300 of the birds.
More details (Daily Mail)8. The man who designed the iconic Rolling Stones lips logo, was paid just £50 for the job… although he received a £200 bonus.
More details9. Indie music fans are not, in general, gentle sorts but heavy metal fans are.
More details10. You can dive from 35ft into 12in of water – and only suffer bruising (with a lot of training).
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September 6th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Hi Nick
Been in Spain with Margaret (MIL as you put it) since Sunday so was not aware on this occassion of your faux pas re Em’s birthday. But nice to see a picture of their wedding featuring again on your blog.
Speaking of hols when is your trip to India? Bet you can’t wait.
Love to all the Hodge Boltons – Babs
September 6th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Hi Barbara
We leave on September 28th and true, can’t wait. just said to Jo, feel a bit ‘fed up’ just waiting for it…by now I should have had a holiday