now that we are well into 2008, i thought i'd finally get around to posting something new year's related. yeah. it seems i've forgotten how to blog. sad.
enjoy this instead.
BBC's 100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year.
24. The are 30,000 wild parakeets in London.
26. Harvesting rhubarb in candlelight helps preserve its flavor.
31. There is mobile phone reception from the summit of Mount Everest.
44. Europe has a vodka belt comprising Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark and Sweden, although the drink is also made in countries such as Britain, France, Italy and Spain.
70. IP addresses will run out in 2010.
71. An ai is a three-toed sloth from South America (and the word that clinched Paul Allan the title of national Scrabble champion).
87. Relocating crocodiles doesn't work - they come back.
97. There have been at least two children given the name "Superman" in the UK since 1984.
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