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The Norwegians claim, proudly to have invented the paper clip, Johan Vaaler in 1899, but Spencer had done it almost thirty years before, but his supplier went bankrupt and he never followed it up.
11 billion paper clips are sold annually, but only 1 in 5 are used to hold paper together, the rest are used as poker chips, pipe cleaners, safety pins and toothpicks the rest are lost or bent out of shape for amusement.
Very interesting... Thanks for sharing :)
 

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A market research team was asked to come up with a new name after a merger of a college and a university in Bradford, they took three months to come up with three alternatives; University of Bradford, or The University of Bradford, or Bradford University.
Their fee was £20,000.
 

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A market research team was asked to come up with a new name after a merger of a college and a university in Bradford, they took three months to come up with three alternatives; University of Bradford, or The University of Bradford, or Bradford University.
Their fee was £20,000.
Where do you get all this information from? I'm really curious lol
 

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Chewing gum is banned in Singapore????

It's also contraband at the forensic psychiatric hospital where I work. I thought the ban here was silly until someone told me that criminal inmate/patients on the most violent ward had stuffed it into the lock of their room while they battered their roommate: the guards couldn't unlock the door to get in! Fortunately the victim survived the beating and the assailants got moved and got more charges added to the ones they already had. SO GLAD I don't work on that ward!

I work on an intermediate ward where the patients are more mentally ill than criminal. One of my most recent challenges was struggling to keep a straight face when a patient very urgently wanted me to get him to see the doctor because he was sure he had lockjaw (tetanus). When I asked why he thought he had lockjaw, he said "Because you can tell if you have lockjaw by the shape of your butt. I got lockjaw, and I need him to give me something for it." :p
 

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A lot of it I know, but the details and questions come mostly from QI if you know the show. I add my own bits and pieces and check and add other bits from the net sometimes.


and now i know what show to watch :) points here i come!! good show, stephen fry is a good entertainer... especially in blackadder!

great part in goes forth... specked jim the pigeon, too funny!
 

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Ok I'll give it a go but I'm not anywhere near as good as you with weird facts lol

The national animal of Scotland is the unicorn

A shrimps heart is in its head

It's impossible to lick your own elbow

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.
All true except the last one.
They can but not very easily, or to a great angle.
If you walk about on all fours you'll have difficulty looking up too, the neck muscles aren't right.


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Chewing gum is banned in Singapore????

It's also contraband at the forensic psychiatric hospital where I work. I thought the ban here was silly until someone told me that criminal inmate/patients on the most violent ward had stuffed it into the lock of their room while they battered their roommate: the guards couldn't unlock the door to get in! Fortunately the victim survived the beating and the assailants got moved and got more charges added to the ones they already had. SO GLAD I don't work on that ward!

I work on an intermediate ward where the patients are more mentally ill than criminal. One of my most recent challenges was struggling to keep a straight face when a patient very urgently wanted me to get him to see the doctor because he was sure he had lockjaw (tetanus). When I asked why he thought he had lockjaw, he said "Because you can tell if you have lockjaw by the shape of your butt. I got lockjaw, and I need him to give me something for it." :p
Ha de ha ha and hmmmmmmm.
Weird world.
Singapore is very hot on littering and those marks that chewing gum leaves on the street were deemed improper.amongst other horrid things people do with it.
 

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All true except the last one.
They can but not very easily, or to a great angle.
If you walk about on all fours you'll have difficulty looking up too, the neck muscles aren't right.


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Arghh! I knew one of them would come back to bite me :(
Next time I'll just google them lol
 

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what do you call a cow with oddly sized legs????

.. lean beef!


a cow with no legs????

..ground beef
What do you call a deer with no eyes?

No eye deer

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs?

Still no eye deer

What do you call a deer with no eyes and no legs that's death?

Anything you want it can't hear you

That's. Very popular joke where I come from lol it probably sound much more funny in Scottish slang :)
 

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