Friday Factoids (2006.02)

January 14, 2006 by
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Yet more factoids collected on the Internet:

  • The Body Shop is banned from China where cosmetics have to be tested on animals, says Dame Anita Roddick.
  • The number of crimes solved through DNA technology (in the UK) has quadrupled over the past five years.
  • A collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a “smack”.
  • A spacecraft has sent a laser signal to Earth from 24 million km (15 million miles) away in interplanetary space.
  • The longest speech to the House of Commons lasted six hours, a record set in 1828.
  • The Earth’s north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America so fast that it could end up in Siberia within 50 years.
  • Each tank at the Buncefield oil depot housed (until the huge fire) 700,000 gallons of fuel, enough to take a bus to the Moon and back 12 times.
  • You can buy poker chips with verses of scripture on them.
  • Residents of the remote Nedd Valley in the Brecon Beacons had no mains electricity until December 2005 – the last community in England and Wales without it.

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