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24 Jan 2007, 4:52 pm

MelancholyBunny wrote:

You can't use one pound notes in England as they apparently don't exist.

I'm sure you might get away with using them in border areas. Many shops down here won't accept Scottish and Northern Irish banknotes and banknotes from other parts of the Sterling Currency Area (IoM, CI, Gib and so on) are accepted absolutely nowhere in England.

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24 Jan 2007, 4:55 pm

MrMark wrote:

In the 1990s, in response to a quiz conducted at the National Science Foundation, only 48 percent of Americans answered the following true/false question correctly: "The earliest human beings lived at the same time as the dinosaurs." The correct answer, as you know doubt knew, is "false." This quiz was used to determine how much American adults know about basic science.

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24 Jan 2007, 5:05 pm

There are about 500 different kinds of cone snails around the world. All have a sharp, modified tooth that stabs prey with venom like a harpoon. Most cone snails hunt worms and other snails, but some eat fish. These are the ones most dangerous to people. The nerve toxin that stops a fish is powerful enough to also kill a human.

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24 Jan 2007, 5:07 pm

A survey published in a Scottish newspaper found that fifty percent of Americans thought that Haggis were actual living creatures.

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24 Jan 2007, 5:10 pm

Bacardi once marketed a new,fancy drink in Europe
as 'Pavian'.They were unaware that to German speakers this translates as 'baboon'

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24 Jan 2007, 5:36 pm

It takes the same amount of time to age a cigar as wine.

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24 Jan 2007, 6:08 pm

You have four nostrils, two external and two internal.

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24 Jan 2007, 6:21 pm

I can't catch my own tail.... :cry: .

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24 Jan 2007, 6:23 pm

How much something will heat is determined by its specific heat capacity. (energy per kilogram mass per temperature unit)

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24 Jan 2007, 6:24 pm

A bee sting is acidic and a wasp sting is alkali.

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24 Jan 2007, 6:24 pm

Vermont, Alaska, Hawaii, and Maine are the four states in the U.S. that do not allow billboards.

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24 Jan 2007, 6:27 pm

Everything has its own gravitational pull, which depends on its mass.

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24 Jan 2007, 6:27 pm

YES!! !! ! I caught my own tail

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24 Jan 2007, 6:44 pm

I don't cry anymore. There's just no use.

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24 Jan 2007, 6:46 pm

One thousand calories equals one food Calorie.

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24 Jan 2007, 7:06 pm

I have no Sex Drive

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