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1. Dung beetles prefer horse and dog faeces to those of camels and foxes. Not a career to be too choosy in I’d have thought.
2. Europe has a Buddhist state - the Russian republic of Kalmykia.
3. Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.
4. Some sharks can’t reproduce until the age of 20 or above. Which may explain the bad attitude.
5. The InterCity 125 train was designed by the same man who came up with the angle-poise lamp and Kenwood Chef mixer - Kenneth Grange.
6. Cyclists in the UK can be prosecuted for “furious cycling”.
7. Four million people in the UK have phobias about toilets, says the National Phobics Society. If you’ve used a public toilet in the UK you’ll understand-they’re not called bogs (slang) for nothing.
8. Nearly one internet user in 10 has started a blog. Have you? Pop a link in the comments & I’ll link to it if I like it.
9. There are only four words in the English language that end in “-dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
10. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors. And a lot else besides…
11. The Earth weighs approx. 5, 940,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tonnes. If you don’t believe me, you weigh it.
12. Odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion. Tell that to the makers of Sims 2.
13. Nobody knows for sure why 13 is considered unlucky - check out some reasons.

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