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StillSpike wrote: Wed May 20, 2020 9:14 pm There are more tigers in captivity in the USA than in the wild in the rest of the world.
I blame Carole f*cking Baskin
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A sloth can hold its breath for 40 minutes which is longer than a dolphin can

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StillSpike wrote: Wed May 20, 2020 9:14 pm There are more tigers in captivity in the USA than in the wild in the rest of the world.
I'd file that under "tragic" rather than "useless".
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Edvard Beneš, second President of Czechoslovakia, lived in Gwendolen Avenue, Putney during his exile in London from October 1938 to the end of World War II
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Cleanliness is next to Godliness, at least it is in a cheap dictionary.
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Racecar spelt backwards, is spelt racecar.
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StillSpike wrote: Wed May 20, 2020 10:04 pm A sloth can hold its breath for 40 minutes which is longer than a dolphin can

Thanks to QI
Sloths will also sometimes eat their own sh*t.

In other news, an alligator which Adolf Hitler visited in a Berlin zoo in 1938, died yesterday in Moscow
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Aligators have U shaped snouts
Crodiles have a V shaped snout .
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tuffers#1 wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 3:43 pm Aligators have U shaped snouts
Crodiles have a V shaped snout .
Some where in my dim and distance past I knew that, unfortunately that past is getting longer
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@dunners world locations by latitude map ^.

It always amazes me how far north we are in the UK compared to the other continents. Basically, the Canadian tundra to the west and Siberian permafrost to the east. So, praise be to the Gulf Stream making our lives a bit more tolerably temperate...if slightly damp, I guess.
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Disneyland in Anaheim, California, has more public lavatories than Latvia.
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Paddy Grealish wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 10:36 pm Disneyland in Anaheim, California, has more public lavatories than Latvia.
Not as many as Tunbridge Wells though the last time I had a night out there.
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Sadly most are either closed or demolished now, Dissy. Just 2 left outside of the shopping centre now. Which is a shame: a well kept public loo always seems a measure of a good, civilised society to me. Mind you, all the surrounding villages seem to have one (currently closed, of course) and generally they are kept very spick and span.
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slacker wrote: Mon May 25, 2020 10:28 am Sadly most are either closed or demolished now, Dissy. Just 2 left outside of the shopping centre now. Which is a shame: a well kept public loo always seems a measure of a good, civilised society to me. Mind you, all the surrounding villages seem to have one (currently closed, of course) and generally they are kept very spick and span.
Glad to hear other parts are more dignified.

The youth in TW need educating on public hygiene though.
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There have been 36,914 deaths from Coronavirus out of the UK's population of 66,000,000, that's 0.05%.

To show these stats in a way we can all relate to, 0.05% of an Orient crowd of 6,000 is three

Or 0.05% of a Wembley crowd of 90,000 is 45
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U.S.A pop'tion 328.22 m corona dead 99,459
U.K pop'tion 66 m corona dead 36,914
Brazil pop'tion 205 m corona dead 23, 473
Russia pop'tion 144m corona dead 3,633


Uk with a relatively small population is only behind the U.S .

https://www.google.com/search?ei=FF3MXo ... s-wiz-serp
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What do we share with Carlisle F.C?

They are the other team to have two Wyverns on their Club Crest.
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NuneatonO's wrote: Tue May 26, 2020 9:00 am What do we share with Carlisle F.C?

They are the other team to have two Wyverns on their Club Crest.
Jabo Ibehre regrets?
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