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Only 3% water of the earth is fresh, rest 97% salted. Of that 3%, over 2% is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. Means less than 1% fresh water is found in lakes, rivers and underground.

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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. : Albert Einstein

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And yet, there is more ice than water in our fridge.

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Belisha Beacons - the yellow globes on the top of the black and white posts on the approach to a Zebra Crossing get their name from the 1934 Minister of Transport who introduced them - Mr Leslie Hore-Belisha

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Probably the most popular bit of trivia among trivia enthusiasts is the fact that the little plastic bits on the end of shoe laces are called aglets.

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If all the knitwear made from synthetic fibres was made from wool, we would need the entire land mass of the european continent devoted purely to sheep.

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If every man woman and child on the planet was given a quater acre of land it still wouldn't fill Australia

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GREAT!!! Ship them out, I'm staying here!!

iirc, this always used to be "Stand shoulder to shoulder and still not fill the Isle of Wight"......too much procreation, je pense.

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Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been." - Albert Einstein

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If you break wind constantly for 6 years, 9 months and 23 days you would produce enough gas to explode an atomic bomb. :shock:

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Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed. : Albert Einstein

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Atomic bombs do not rely on gas to cause the explosion....imagine the BILL!!!!

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Schwarzer the Fulham Goalkeeper, has worn the same set of shin pads since he was 5 years old. (one would imagine they are a little smelly right now!)

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Atomic bombs do not rely on gas to cause the explosion....imagine the BILL!!!!

true, but they do require a detonator to force the reaction which is normally some kind of high explosive. So it would have to be a very large bomb to house enough gas to do the job. :D

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That's just silly. It's like saying you can't knee yourself in the back or you can't bend your toes back to touch your knees or you can't see your left eye with your right eye.

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Your mind can only do circa 5 things consciously. Everything else is subconscious. For example, you couldn't feel your feet inside your socks and shoes until I just mentioned it and your brain was prompted by you reading this to bring it into the conscious.

Likewise driving is by necessity subconscious. Can you imagine what a mess the roads would be if everyone was thinking? (okay...put my hand on the gearlever, put foot on clutch and lift my other foot off the accelerator...now, move the lever into the next gear.....now lift off the clutch while simultaniously putting my foot on the accelerator).

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You can't lick your own elbow!

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