Fact of the day

Wow, how grotty? I mean, that's not great in the scheme of things. Might as well have bought a couple of BMW E30 M3s.

A couple of examples of stupid London 'growth' from elsewhere;

• Friend bought house in Notting Hill for £125,000 in 1991. Sold in 2010 for £1.4m.
  
• Friend got married, bought flat in Hornsey Rise in March 2012 for £220k. Separated a year later, flat sold in April 2013 for £307k. Every cloud and all that.
  
  

I think you'd have to be bordering on mentally-ill to pay today's prices for London flats.

How do you know they put in a new bathroom, new kitchen, spent £5k on the garden and extended the lease...?
And how the shitting crickey do you know the reason they separated...?

Peeping Tom much?

Pointless pedantry over.

If only.

One in three Europeans experienced the theft or loss of a mobile device in 2013

no wonder vodafone is worth £51bn

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27935972

muslims are not allowed to touch dogs

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/scottie-dogs-in-commonwealth-games-opening-ceremony-disrespectful-to-muslims-say-malaysian-politicians-9634891.html

Today I've learned a fact, that cashew nuts grow on trees, attached to an apple.

in goa they use the fruit to make a regional alcoholic drink, quite potent

Interesting how the fruit taste by itself, imagine it's not very good, as it's not popular.

Another fact is that there are 6 humans in space right now. 3 Russian (one of them from Latvia) 2 Americans and one German.

i didn't see the fruit on sale
the fermented version must have been more sought after for some reason ?

Inspired Google search from the doping thread:
Carbon dioxide cannot be used for whipped cream because it is acidic in water, which would curdle the cream and give it a seltzer-like "sparkling" sensation. That is why NOS is used instead.

Nearly a fifth of China's farmland is contaminated by toxic heavy metals and chemicals, and more than 33,000 sq km – an area the size of Belgium - is unfit for agricultural use, according to a soil survey carried out in April.

There is an government app in Iceland that helps citizens establish whether they are related, so they can avoid accidentally committing incest

we pay £49bn per year in interest servicing our national debt
£777 per man woman and child

So, covered by council tax then?

If you earn enough to pay council tax, at least.

Wonder how it compares to annual council tax takings?

Looks like it's around 10% of total tax receipts going by some random guardian data Google found so if you're spending less than 10% of your income servicing debt you're doing better than the government (without the ability to print your own money)

Nice to see Wales not being used as a measurement for once.

Adapted from Reuters copy. Better quality, fewer lazy clichés :)

Bees can be trained to sniff out explosives using a process known as hymenoptera training. It takes about five hours to train a single bee.

However, using bees to detect explosives has proved unreliable because they actually sniff out the additives and are unable to detect explosives in their pure form.

Salvador Dalí designed the Chupa Chups lollipops logo

According to the Credit Suisse global wealth report, a person needs just $3,650 – including the value of equity in their home – to be among the wealthiest half of world citizens. However, more than $77,000 is required to be a member of the top 10% of global wealth holders, and $798,000 to belong to the top 1%.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/29/todays-key-fact-you-are-probably-wrong-about-almost-everything

Interesting how the fruit taste by itself, imagine it's not very good, as it's not popular.

I think that the fruit is too delicate to transport well, so it is only available locally.

(From the article)

Britons showed more self-knowledge than Australians.

Golf clap

3 Russian (one of them from Latvia)

Latvia is not part of Russia. Yet...