Get punching yourself then, as you are the cretin that came up with that phrase
The correct phrase is ' A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush '
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Get punching yourself then, as you are the cretin that came up with that phrase
The correct phrase is ' A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush '
And what would you dip in your sauce of choice!?
How can anyone prove that? Cobblers!
Get punching yourself then, as you are the cretin that came up with that phrase
The correct phrase is ' A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush '
Actually it's "One in Kate Bush is worth two in your hand".
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I would dispute this because I saw a documentary once where a scientist said that "for most of human history at any one time, there was a steady number of 1 billion people alive, and that only changed within the past 100 years or so in the industrial age where we now have 7 times that numbers in such a short space of time, currently 7 billion people alive and they predict 8.5 billion by 2030 and 9.7 billion by 2050".
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I guess you could argue that, although I saw a documentary on just that, and the scientist said in all their research of 10's of thousands of **********, they never found a single one that was the same. It was quite interesting, it was broadcasted on bbc iplayer but I forget the name. They also discovered that the ********** fell into several categories of specific types of snow flakes. They've also proven that there actually is different types of snow and ice.
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The only member of the band ZZ Top without a beard has the last name Beard.
For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects
If you disassembled the Great Pyramid of Cheops, you would get enough stones to encircle the earth with a brick wall twenty inches high.
In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.
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Important to remember though that the cheeseable volume always tends to infinity....
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The top selling album Eliminator was recorded with a drum machine and Frank had to copy the beats when on tour.
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'Possessio' is nine tenths of the word
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There's a team of NASA scientists who've been pretending they are on Mars for nearly a year. They live and work in a dome on the side of a Hawaiian volcano and only go out in spacesuits.
In 1894, London and New York were drowning in horse excrement. It was estimated that within 50 years the streets would be buried in 9 feet of poo. Fortunately, the car was invented.
There's a beer called "*** fully star out swear words please *** Hell". It's named after a town in Austria (F) and the German word for light lager (Hell).
Oxford University is home to a battery powered bell that's been ringing since 1840. Nobody knows what the battery is made of and no one want to risk taking it apart to find out.
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There might be some words need altered, had things a different name?
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There was a good 3 part BBC documentary about how London, Paris & somewhere else were drowning in all sorts of poo including their own.
Anybody who has ever done the Edinburgh tour where you go down into the original City would know the stories of poo being thrown from the windows twice a day to run down into the loch (now a park).
Fun fact #1: The amount of money spent on pets in the US correlates with the number of lawyers in Kentucky
Fun fact #2: Correlation != causation
Worm pill' could ease autoimmune disease symptoms
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811125126.htm
People are also looking in to whether a decline in worms and other gut bacteria is one of reasons there has been a significant increase in things like celiac and other food allergies.
So in this case correlation may very well be equal to causation, along with the increase in things like asthma due to being in overly cleanly environments as children...
Partly wrong. Up until the industrial revolution population of humans was relatively steady at around 100-200 million. After the industrial revolution the number rocketed up.
The difference is all others continued on to reach billions of people, whereas google plus stopped after hitting 50...
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D-Day fighting was so intense that 4% of Normandy's beach is still shrapnel.
The extra weight of fat people costs airlines around £200 million per year.
On the Japanese island of Yakushima, monkeys are known to ride deer for transport. In return the monkeys groom the deer and share food with them.
By law, a pregnant woman can wee anywhere she wants to, even if she chooses to go in a policeman's helmet.
The game Twister was denounced by critics as "sex in a box".
2/3 of the population of the world have never seen show.
men are 6 times more likely to be struck by lightning than women.
Around 20% of coffee mugs contain faecal matter.
When you buy a bottle of Laphroaig Scotch, the company gives you a 1 sq foot piece of land in Scotland.
The large holes in buildings in Hong Kong are called Dragon Windows. They are designed not to hinder or block dragons passage from the hills to the sea.
1 out 10 babies born in Europe were conceived in an Ikea bed.
There are more vacant homes than homeless people on the US.
Elvis got a C in music
Russia didn't consider Beer to be alcohol until 2011. Previously it was classed as a soft drink.
Hundreds of radioactive wild boars are causing havoc in towns near Fukushima power plant, cause 10 million pounds in damages.
The pangolin is the only mammal with scales and is alos the most illegally traded wild mammal. It is in danger of being eaten to extinction.
The city of Medellin, Columbia reduced motorcycle assassinations by 39% when it banned male passengers from riding on the back.
Bill Gates net worth is four and a half times as large as North Korea's GDP.
When William Leonard Pickard was arrested, the world's LSD supply decreased by 90%.
A girls had to have her stomach removed after drinking shots of Jager mixed with Liquid nitrogen. The bar was fined £100,000.
A gymnast at the Rio Olympics named Marisa Dick created a new move for the balance beam and was the first to use it in a competition. A "change-leg leap to free-cross split sit" is now known as The Dick Move.
Bob Marley's final words were, "money cant buy life."
D-Day fighting was so intense that 4% of Normandy's beach is still shrapnel.
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The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
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All polar bears are left handed.
Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.
The chance that you will die on the way to buy your lottery ticket is greater than the chance of you winning the big prize in most lotteries.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.
An average of 100 people choke to death on ball point pens each year.
The National Anthem of Greece has 158 verses.
Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
The Bible has been translated into Klingon.
Toto was paid $125 per week while filming the “Wizard of Oz”.
All polar bears are left handed.
Fidgeting can burn about 350 calories a day.