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Canada won 3-1. :-)
100 things we didn't know this time last year is an interesting article from the BBC. Some highlights:
2. Farmers plant their crops up to three weeks earlier than 15 years ago. In the 1960s, temperatures from January to March averaged 4.2C; it rose to 5.6C in the 1990s.
This is a little distrubing. Especially since some people (e.g. George Bush) are Global Warming deniers.
19. The collective noun for rhinos is "crash".
Better store that one away for future use during Trivial Pursuit.
62. The founder of the Natural History Museum, Sir Richard Owen, was the man we have to thank for the word "dinosaur", literally meaning "terrible lizard".
The Natural History Museum is cool. I was there in May.
68. Bill Clinton revealed in his autobiography that he didn't learn to ride a bike properly until he was 22.
That's just plain funny.
70. And reports of UFOs have dwindled since the late 1990s. In the UK, sightings have gone from about 30 a week to almost zero; it's a trend echoed in the US and Norway.
Whom do you report a UFO siting to, exactly?
