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  1. DMD

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    Shell originally started out trading in sea-shells. Oil was a later sideline.
     
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    The human eye can pick out a candle flame from 15 miles away.
     
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    Owls are the only birds that can see the colour blue.

    All male shirts have buttons on the right hand side, womens shirts have buttons on the left.

    Almost a third of the total stars visible in the night skies are actually systems consisting of 2, 3, 4 or up to 8 different stars.
     
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    In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar's Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash.

    On Good Friday in 1930, the BBC reported, "There is no news." Instead, they played piano music.

    M&M's actually stands for "Mars & Murrie's," the last names of the candy's founders.
     
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    Nintendo was originally a taxi firm.
     
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    In the 1970s, Mattel sold a doll called "Growing Up Skipper." Her breasts grew when her arm was turned.
     
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    The children of the founders of Mattel were called Kenneth and Barbara - Ken & Barbie.

    Good job Ken wasn't named Claus.
     
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    Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

    Oh, the irony!
     
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    If an Alien was looking at the earth from 65 million light years away, he'll currently be watching Dinosaurs.
     
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  10. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

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    And Mickey Mouse wasn't created by Walt Disney, but by the artist Ub Iwerks.
     
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    The Who were going to call their live album: "The Who Live in Hull" but changed it to "The Who Live at Leeds" at the last minute.
     
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    90% of the living cells in the human body are not human.
     
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    There are about the same number of atoms in a human cell as there are cells in the human body
     
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    ....because the Hull recording (the night before Leeds) had Entwistle's bass part missing on the first 5(?) tracks. The 'Live at Hull' recording has Entwistle's Leeds parts dubbed on those songs.....
     
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    I'd watch that show. I'm not sure where Roger Daltrey actually lives, but if we can get them to spend a week living on Hessle Rd on a budget, that'd actually make for good TV.
     
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    I saw it! <whistle> And I think Daltrey lives in Surrey or Sussex, where he has a trout farm
     
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    Hank Marvin has been a practising taxidermist for 40 years and is a committee member of the UK guild of taxidermists.

    His speciality is kestrels. Nobody brings life to a kestrel corpse like Hank.
     
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    You nose is permanently in your vision, but your brain chooses to ignore it.
     
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    If you pass a bowl of mushy peas through a very powerful electo-magnetic field they will in fact become unmushed.
     
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    So is that more than one founder that had a child? Or are we saying that Ken and Barbie are brother and sister?
     
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