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A cubic mile of fog is made up of less than a gallon of water.
 
As a general rule, father's go from being the cleverest man in the universe to the thickest **** that ever lived, over a span of years that coincide with offspring becoming teenagers...
 
I now suffer from vertigo, following a visit to Boothferry Park.

We'd long since moved to the KC and I'd heard about people climbing the floodlights, so I thought I'd have a bit of that.

South east corner. Warm and not very windy day selected. Got up through the first bit of barbed wire then just set off up. Some fantastic views all around Hull to the Bridge and Saltend and OPE. Didn't seem to take too long going up.

Got about 3/4 of the way up and although it wasn't that windy on the floor, it didn't feel like that up there. It felt like the whole floodlight was rocking. It didn't seem to far up to the top, but looked down to see how far back to the ground. Absolutely shat myself and pretty much froze right there. I was sweating like a pig and had visions of having to be lifted off by a helicopter.

It took me ages to get down. All I could do was look at the metal that I was holding on to. Couldn't look into the distance and had to concentrate really hard just to move my arms and legs. I never felt so releived to touch the ground again.

And now I have issues in planes and going over the Humber Bridge etc.
 
Not trying to have a go or sound bad Arnold, but that isn't vertigo. That's Acrophobia.

Vertigo, as it turns out, is just a form of dizziness which can happen in any given situation.
 
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories a hour.
 
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.
 
Britain's first mobile phone call was made by the comedian Ernie Wise
 
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
 
There's enough lego bricks in the world that if they were put side by side they'd get to the moon and back 10 times
 
Only Elvis Presley has had more top 40 hits in a calendar year than Yorkshire band The Wedding Present.

Who had 12 in 1993.

I think it '93 anyway. I should know, they're one of my favourite bands.
 
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