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9 May 2009	A tribute to the inventor of the Doner Kebab Like Chicken Tikka Korma, the Doner Kebab has become a favourite food for the post-pub... Read more >>
15 Mar 2009	On throwing cats out of aeroplanes As a keen cat-lover, I would never intentionally put my furry friend at risk. ... Read more >>
25 Jan 2009	Dubai's really, really, strict drug laws. Dubai is one of the United Arab Emirates and is located in the Persian Gulf. It is a... Read more >>
2 Nov 2008	The Marshmallow Test: self denial is good for you. I was reading today about "The Marshmallow Test", which was a 1960s study at... Read more >>
25 Aug 2008	Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, a man who dared to question Adolfo Aguilar Zínser (1949-2005) was a Mexican scholar, diplomat and politician who... Read more >>

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10 things we didn't know last week

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience. 1. Camels travel by train. More details 2. Buddhist monks sleep upright. More details 3. Four-legged animals need to avoid doing "wheelies". More details 4. Seagulls attack whales. More details 5. If you use a tool for a while, your brain can mentally incorporate it into your body. More details 6. The UK has the ability to launch "cyber attacks". More details 7. British-style black cabs are now driven in China. More details 8. Every film in which actress Dame Judi Dench swears results in complaints to the BBFC. More details 9. There is a long tradition of "medals of dishonour". More details 10. Chilli can be used as a weapon in crowd control. More details Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Terry Donovan for his picture of 10 yellow Citroen 2CVs.
Fri, Jun 26 2009

10 things we didn't know last week

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience. 1. There are 2,500 year old bird nests still in continuous use. More details 2. The Fred Perry sportswear logo was almost a pipe - Perry was a keen smoker - but his business partner thought this would put off women customers. More details 3. As a cold-blooded insect, flies are slower in the early morning and evening when the air is cooler, and speed up in the heat of the day. More details 4. C, the single-letter codename for the head of MI6, dates from when the first boss, Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, signed himself "C" for Cumming. More details 5. Streetlights cause problems for bats. More details 6. The pilot and co-pilot on a passenger plane are not allowed to have the same meal in case they both get food poisoning. More details 7. The Queen has an allotment. More details 8. Scotland has the lowest age for criminal responsibility in Europe. More details 9. Hitachi makes trains. More details 10. Pak Do-ik, the North Korean footballer, is still known as "the dentist" among Italian football fans for causing them pain by scoring the goal that saw them beaten 1-0 in the 1966 World Cup. More details Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Vic Barton-Walderstadt for this picture of 10 bollards.
Fri, Jun 19 2009

10 things we didn't know last week

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience. 1. Gay people in China used to be prosecuted under "hooliganism" laws. More details 2. Canada used to border Zimbabwe. More details 3. Carly Simon had a stutter. More details 4. Sir Alan Sugar donates his salary from The Apprentice to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. More details (Mail) 5. Setanta started in an Irish dance hall in west London in 1990. More details 6. A new word in the English language is created every 98 minutes. More details 7. You're seven times more likely to be a millionaire if you're called Patel than if you're called Smith. More details 8. More than half of all Patels in the UK are married to people born Patel. More details 9. Only eight Britons who fought in the Spanish Civil War are known to be still alive. More details 10. Britney's father monitors her mobile phone use. More details (Times) Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Vic Barton-Walderstadt for this week's picture of 10 drops of water in Welwyn Garden City.
Fri, Jun 12 2009