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Blood
Lobsters have blue blood
Moths have white blood
Champagne Corks
More people are killed by flying champagne corks than poisonous spiders each year
Coconuts
More people annually are killed by falling coconuts than by sharks
Dubai
An increase from 72mi of coastline to 1500 mi is planned by 2011. An increase of 2018%
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Labels
Percentage of items of nutritional information on food labes found to be incorrect in a Which? survey in March 2005: 93%
Supermarkets that intend to introduce variations of the Government's "traffic light" system (whereby food items are labelled in red, amber, or green according to their evels of fats, saturates, salts and sugar)on their own-label goods: Asda, Sainsbury's, Waitrose.
Supermarkets that prefer their their own schemes: Tesco.
Supermarkets still "reviewing" the matter: Morrisons.
Leading food and drinks groups that have withdrawn from the "traffic light" scheme: Kraft, Danone, Kellogg, Nestlé, PepsiCo.
Assorted items found on British and US labels in 2005 (by among others, "Which?" and Michigan lawsuit abuse watch):
- "Allergy advice: Contains milk" on Tesco milk.
- "Allergy advice: Contains nuts" on Tesco bags of assorted nuts.
- "Not suitable for marine use" on International Yacht Varnish.
- "Average contents: 2" on a box of Puma trainers.
- "Not suitable for children under 3 years" on a birthday card with a fluffy "2" on the front.
- "Not intended for use as a dental drill" on a household drill.
- "Do not use as a hairdryer" on a Hot Air Paint Removal Tool that produces temperatures of 1,000C.
- "Do not use while asleep" on a hairdryer.
- "Ovenware will get hot when used in oven" on a Revere Ware baking tray.
Labour Party
The Labour Party was founded in 1900 but did not begin to call itself the "Labour Party" until 15 February 1906.
It has just under 200,000 members.
Languages
There are around 6,750 living or actively spoken languages in the world. But 90%of them have fewer than 100,000 speakers while 350 have fewer than 50 speakers. By some estimates, a language becomes extinct once a fortnight.
The world's most spoken languages:
Mandarin - 1bn speakers
English - 508m
Hindustani - 487m
Spanich - 293m
Russian - 277m
Arabis - 246m
Bengali - 211m
Portugese - 191m
Malay/Indonesian - 159m
French - 129m
56%of EU citizens speak at least one laguage, other than their mothertongue, well enought o hold a conversation in it.
Amnog Britons, the figure is 28% - the lowest in the EU apart from Ireland (34%)
In Luxemburg, 99%of the citizens speak a second language; in Slovakia 97%. In Luxemburg 92%of the population speak a third language, as do 75%of the citizens in the Netherlands.
Most populat languages spoken (in the EU) as a foreign language:
English - 38%
French - 14%
German - 14%
Spanish - 6%
Russian - 6%
23% of Britons say that they could hold a conversation in French, 9% that they could do so in German and 8% in Spanish.
18% of Britons say that they speak at least two extra languages, and 68% at least three.In the EU as a whole, 28% of people speak at least two languages, and 11% at least three.
Only a quarter of state schools in England still insist that all pupils over 14 study a language.
Law, Jude
Law & Lawyers
Lesgs, Restless
Liberals & Liberal Democrats
Libraries
Lifeboats
Life Expectancy
Literacy
Little Britain
Live8
Livingstone, Ken
Lobsters
Lobsters have blue blood
When dropped in hot water, lobsters scream
London Bombings
Lonely Heats
Lopez, Jennifer
Lost Property
Lotteries
Love, Marriage, and Relationships
McCartney, Sir Paul
McDonalds
Mac Pro
There are 4, 976, 640 possible configuration combinations
Madonna
Magic
Mammals, WIld
Mars
Matter
Meat Media
Men
Miss World
Missing People
Mobile Phones
Money
Moss, Kate
Moths
According to a report by Butterfly Conservation,
Moths have white blood
Motorists & Motoring Offences
Museums
Music
Music Awards
Muslims
93% of Muslims in England feel that 9/11 was set-up between the USA and Israel, or the USA and Bin Laden
90% think that Diana Princess of Wales was killed because she was going to marry a muslim (Dodi)
82% of muslims in England feel strongly British
25% believed that the 7/7 bombings were justified in light of the British role in the war on terror
The UK has a muslim population of 1.5m
44% of muslims would send their children to an Islamic school as opposed to a normal British school
33% would rather live under Sharia law (as dictsted by the Koran)
33% hope that Britain will become the next Islamic state
56% of muslims feel that they are under religious persecution. This includes from the police.
97% of muslims believe that there is no main body representing them to the government
Names
Nappies
NATO
Neighbours
New Year
New York
Nobel Prizes
North Korea
North Sea Oil
Northern Ireland
Nuclear Power
Nuclear Weapons
Numeracy
Obesity
Obituaries
Oil
Old People
Oliver, Jamie
Olympics (London 2012)
OPEC
Opera
Opeas, Soap
Opus Dei
Organ Transplants
The Osbournes
Osteoporosis
Ozone Layer
Paedophilia
Pain
Pandas
Paris
Parking
Parliament, Alternative Location of
Parliament, Members of
Parliament, Cleaners of
Patents
Paternity
Penguins
Pensions
Personal Finance (Other)
Pets
Pipes & Cables
Planning Plastic
Playing Fields Plumbers
Poetry
Poisonous Spiders
Fewer people are killed anually by poisonous spiders than by flying champagne corks
Police
Population
Pornography
Porridge
Post
Poverty
Pregnancy
Prisons
Private Education
Prostitution
Public Relations
Public Spending
Quangos
Queen
Quizzes
Race
Race Relations
Radio
Railways
Ramsay, Gordon
Rape
Reality Television
Red Tape
Refugees
Religion
Restaurants
Rhubarb
Richard, Cliff
Rivers
Roads & Traffic
Roadkill
Robberies
Rolling Stones, The
Roman Catholics
Rubber Bands
Rushdie, Salman
Russia
SARS
Schools
Scotland
Seaguls
Seals
Service Stations
Sex
Sex Education
Sexual Health
Sharks
Fewer people are killed by sharks each year, than in vending machine-related deaths
Sheep
Shopping
Sick Leave
Simpsons, The
Sleep & TirednessSmacking
Slugs
Slugs have 4 noses
Smell
Smith, Zadie
Smoking
Snacks
Snakes
Social Security
Space
SPAM
Spiders
Spies
Sport
Springer, Jerry, The Opera
Squid
Squirrels
Starbucks
Stewart, Martha
Stock Markets
Stress
Sudoku
Suicide
Supermarkets
Supernatural, The
Tax
Taxis
Tea
Tea Cosies
In 2005, 37 people were seriously injured in tea cosy-related accidents.
Teenagers
Telephone Boxes
Television
Terror, War on
Texting
Theatre
Tigers
Toilet Paper
Toilets
Tooth Fairy, The
Toys
Trades Unions
Transport, Paying for
Travel and Tourism
Trees
Truancy
UFOs
United Nations
Underwear
Universities
Useless Spending
Vaccinations
Valentine's Day
Vatican
Vegetables
Vegetarians
Viruses (PC)
By the end of 2005, there had ben over 114,000 known viruses for PCs.
Vitamins
Vivisection
Vultures
Waistlines
Wales, Prince of, The
Walking and Climbing
Wallace & Gromit
Wall Street
War
Waste
Water
Wealth, Extreme
Wealth, Inherited
Weather
Wembley
Whales
Williams, Robbie
Wine
Women
Women in Entertainment
Women in Power
Words, New
Work
Wristbands
Written Statements (Parliamentary)
xBoxes
X Factor, The
X-Prize
X-Rays
Y
Youth Crime
Youth Hostels
Zeta-Jones, Catherine
Zimbabwe
Zoos
Zoology
Zoonoses
Zoophilia