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100 Things We Learned This Year
Number one is:
Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons.
But we are wiser yet:
Crows apparently like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades.
Here is the full list. And the nationality most likely to read spam? The Brazilians, of course. Sightings of UFOs are way down since the late 1990s, but for a step backwards:
Lasagne has replaced chicken tikka massala as the favourite dish of Britons.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on January 10, 2005 at 07:24 AM in Science | Permalink
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» More on the Great British Cuisine. from Tim Worstall
Tyler Cowen links to the BBC site on the 100 things we learnt in 2004. That will probably bear more studying. Tyler is rather saddened by this factoid: Lasagne has replaced chicken tikka massala as the favourite dish of Britons. [Read More]
Tracked on Jan 10, 2005 1:55:36 PM
» 100 Things We Didn't Know from Impleader.com
Da' Beeb has released a list of 100 things we (presumably the article writer) didn't know: 76. More than one billion birds crash into buildings in the US every year. Mirrored office blocks are a particular hazard. How many seconds birds per second is t... [Read More]
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» 100 Things We Didn't Know from Impleader.com
Da' Beeb has released a list of 100 things we (presumably the article writer) didn't know: 76. More than one billion birds crash into buildings in the US every year. Mirrored office blocks are a particular hazard. How many seconds birds per second is t... [Read More]
Tracked on Jan 10, 2005 6:58:43 PM
» Quick, call the desi cultural conspiracy! Stat! from Sepia Mutiny
Tyler Cowen reports, that, in a step backwards, "Lasagne has replaced chicken tikka massala as the favourite dish of Britons." [The step backwards is Tyler's interpretation, not mine. I've always been fond of Lasagna, and indifferent towards CTM] Altho... [Read More]
Tracked on Jan 10, 2005 8:34:55 PM
» Quick, call the desi cultural conspiracy! Stat! from Sepia Mutiny
Tyler Cowen reports that, in a step backwards, "Lasagne has replaced chicken tikka massala as the favourite dish of Britons." [The step backwards is Tyler's interpretation, not mine. I've always been fond of Lasagna, and indifferent towards CTM] Althou... [Read More]
Tracked on Jan 10, 2005 8:37:07 PM
» Quick, call the desi cultural conspiracy! Stat! from Sepia Mutiny
Tyler Cowen reports that, in a step backwards, "Lasagne has replaced chicken tikka massala as the favourite dish of Britons." [The step backwards is Tyler's interpretation, not mine. I've always been fond of Lasagna, and indifferent towards CTM] Althou... [Read More]
Tracked on Jan 10, 2005 10:57:34 PM
