here are 10, no make that 11, things none of us know this time last week
disclaimer: i did not make any of these up.
1. The age of consent in Northern Ireland is 17, as opposed to 16 in the rest of the UK.
2. A digital radio uses between 12 and 20 times the energy that an analogue radio does.
3. The phrase "dead reckoning" means navigating traditionally, by charts and compass.
4. George Bush is the first president since Jimmy Carter not to subscribe to the Guardian Weekly (he's partial to ESQUIRE, really...ok kidding)
5. Male African golden web orb spiders have two penises, both of which drop off during sex. (OUCH!)
6. There are 6.5m sets of fingerprints on file in the UK. (why so few??)
7. About 60% of drivers stopped by police do not give their true identity. (how clever)
8. Heroin addicts commit on average 432 offences a year, according to Chief Constable Howard Roberts.
9. Iceland's population is about the same as that of Doncaster.
10. Michael Jackson watches I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here.
11. Michael also loves James Bond movies, despite the fact that they are rife with violence and adult sex. Usually Michael prefers cartoons or Disney fare. But he didn't go for the English premiere of Casino Royale because he was 'too nervous' to be near the Queen. So the onetime King of Pop asked the Bond production company to lend him a tape, allowing him to enjoy the latest Bond flick in the privacy of his hotel suite with diet coke n popcorns for company. There were no queens around to make him nervous then.
-weikee