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DMD

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Shell originally started out trading in sea-shells. Oil was a later sideline.
 
The human eye can pick out a candle flame from 15 miles away.
 
The human eye can pick out a candle flame from 15 miles away.

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
90% of the living cells in the human body are not human.
 
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.

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.
 
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.
 
You nose is permanently in your vision, but your brain chooses to ignore it.
 
The children of the founders of Mattel were called Kenneth and Barbara - Ken & Barbie.

Good job Ken wasn't named Claus.

So is that more than one founder that had a child? Or are we saying that Ken and Barbie are brother and sister?