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100 things we didn't know 12 months ago

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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 10:35 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinem...x.html#a007948

There are some funny ones.
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 10:38 PM
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100. In the 1960s, the CIA used to watch Mission Impossible to get ideas about spying.
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 10:51 PM
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84. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.

O rly???
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Old Dec 28, 2006 | 10:56 PM
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cool.
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 01:42 AM
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5. Standard-sized condoms are too big for most Indian men.
BURN!

23. More than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet, says a study.

I don't believe them.

45. Cows can have regional accents, says a professor of phonetics, after studying cattle in Somerset

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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 03:01 AM
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27. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.

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33. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.

glad i stopped eating them
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No. 47...Watching television can act as a natural painkiller for children...

No. 72...Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago (38 years ago for me) showing less problematic behaviour "involving sex, drugs and drink."

No, 87...Goths...are likely to become doctors, lawyers, and architects.
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 06:17 AM
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Originally Posted by LT
84. Thinking about your muscles can make you stronger.

O rly???
If that were actually true, you'd be a body builder. So obviously it's not.
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Old Dec 29, 2006 | 06:19 AM
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Originally Posted by OLDMAN
No. 72...Modern teenagers are better behaved than their counterparts of 20 years ago (38 years ago for me) showing less problematic behaviour "involving sex, drugs and drink."
unpossible

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No, 87...Goths...are likely to become doctors, lawyers, and architects.
i was friends with a couple of the goth kids at school and a couple of them are going to med school and law school :eek3:
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