more useful facts

[Forth Bridges]

1. The are 30,000 wild parakeets in London.

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2. Alan Sugar is a big fan of Masterchef.

3. It's possible to map a 248-dimensional structure.

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4. Harvesting rhubarb in candlelight helps preserve its flavour.

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5. The Quakers invented the modern protest campaign
- in calling for an end to the slave trade  deploying petitions,
consumer boycotts, images, a logo and a slogan.

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6. The  Legal limit for  flying a plane is 20mg of alcohol.

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7. Martina Navratilova has spent four years secretly working as an artist.

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8. NHS hospitals took more than 95m in car parking charges in 2004/2005.

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9. Alcohol and tobacco are more "harmful" than cannabis, ecstasy and LSD according to a new ranking drawn up by the Lancet.

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10. Tony Blair isn't a bad comedy actor, judging by his performance on Comic Relief.

[wjp666]

11. When it comes to lists of facts, most people just read the first two and get bored, so give up on the rest. the more adventurous reader will read the last one as well, just to see if it was actually going anywhere (which it never does). wjp6662007-03-26 06:53:23

[oldspice]

I was wondering why it's useful to know how many parakeets there are in London but I suppose if there's that many it may prompt me to take one of those rain hoods with me next time I go.

 

I don't give a fig about Alan Sugar and I knew about the rhubarb thing - it's forced rhubarb that you can buy when the real stuff is out of season.

[goldencup]

I think a lot of 'useful' facts are only useful if you do quizzes.  And as for Tony Blair - I thought he'd been a comedy actor for years. goldencup2007-03-26 07:52:04

[loulou]

These useful facts are riveting stuff.

[smurfboy]

The largest town in the UK without a railway station is Gosport, Hants.

[loulou]

How did I ever get this far in life not knowing that?

[smurfboy]

God only knows.