Dear DMC — Happy New Year
Here is a seasonal compendium of useless knowledge from the BBC:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2012/12/100_things_we_didnt_know_last_7.shtml
Best wishes
Steve Reszetniak
London
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Dear Steve
Wow. That’s progress. So much more knowledge than we had a year ago.
Dull men will no doubt pore over and ponder these (dull men like to ponder).
Here’s what we’ve learned so far from the article:
• Now we know that King’s Lynn in Norfolk is the caravan capital of England and Wales.
• There something different we can do every day of the year, two days on leap years: misspell a Welsh village’s name — a google search has uncovered 364 different ways to misspell the name of the Welsh village Betws-y-Coed.
• Ikea has sold more than 11 million meatballs in the U.K.
• Goats have accents. We came across this a while back. Dr. Alan McElligott — University of London who did the research for this — was nominated to be our Dull Man of the Year, click here.
• Chimpanzees have a secret handshake. These handshakes are passed down through generations, according to a new study.
DMC
3 January 2013
