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Crab sticks no longer contain crab and from 1993, manufacturers have been legally obliged to call them crab-flavoured sticks.

Straight from the mouth of Alan Partridge...

I'm 100% AP literate, you'll not get one past me :lol:

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Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

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During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.

The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.

The Chinese ideogram for 'trouble' depicts two women living under one roof.

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-In 1919, the Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.

-A jiffy is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, I will be there in a jiffy.

-Bamboo plants can grow up to 36 inches in a day.

-Every day, the Hubble telescope transmits enough data to fit 10,000 standard computer disks.

-The average density of the universe at the moment is about 6 protons per cubic metre.

-It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

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The thing about Daddy Long Legs is that they've got a really toxic venom but they have no way of administering it. But apparently that's not true anyway. Oh, a Daddy Long Legs isn't a spider, it's an insect* ;)

Unless you're not English.

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There are more chickens in the world than there are humans.

Coke a Cola would be green if it wasn't for colouring.

A very stupid one i just found:

On the radio today I heard the DJ talk about Osama Bin Laden. It seems he likes to watch 'Miami Vice', 'The A-team' and 'Mc Giver'.

Well... that gives us 2 conclusions:

* He still lives in the eighties

* Now we know how he makes those suicide-bombs (and we can now blame McGiver)

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