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10 things I learnt last month from clever birds, to moving the earth, Gendarmerie’s liquid lunch and dinosaur toothache, by Marketing Society editor, Elen Lewis
City dwelling birds have larger brains than those that live in the countryside.
Heart attacks in the morning do more damage than those later in the day.
Tesco sold 120 miles of bunting before The Royal Wedding – enough to wrap around Westminster Abbey 200 times.
CDs were designed to be 12cm (4.8in) in diameter, because it provided sufficient capacity at 75 minutes to store all of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
French police are currently allowed 25cl of wine or a small beer with their lunch while on duty
Dinosaurs suffered from toothache.
The Japanese earthquake moved the country towards the US by 13 feet. It also shifted the Earth’s axis by 6.5 inches and shortened the day by 1.6 microseconds.
Soap and water can be better than hand gels and wipes at tackling germs.
Spies used to engrave messages on toe-nails.
The average person experiences a micromort (a one in a million chance of dying) by driving 230 miles in a car, riding six miles on a motorbike, travelling 6,000 miles in a train or by taking three flights.
Posted: May 3rd, 2011 | Author: elen.lewis | Filed under: 10 Things | Tags: 10 Things, elen lewis, marketing society editor | Leave a Comment »
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