28 dezembro 2006

100 things we didn't know last year

1. Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".
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2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.
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3. Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
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4. Bristol is the least anti-social place in England, says the National Audit Office.
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5. Standard-sized condoms are too big for most Indian men.
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6. The late Alan "Fluff" Freeman, famous as a DJ, had trained as an opera singer.
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7. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
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8. There are 6.5 million sets of fingerprints on file in the UK.
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9. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
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10. Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated on another planet.
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