Copycats

Similarities in advertising

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After Elton...

...takes a look at the gayest pop show on the planet: The Eurovision Song Contest.

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Animals Hand Painting

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From the spaghetti harvest...

...to the instant color tv here are the top 100 April Fool's Day hoaxes of all time.

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Incredible things...

...people (actually) said in court.

Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July fifteen.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.

Answering today's question

Why there are only 28 days in February?

The Masa in New York...

...is the most expensive restaurant in the USA with the prix fixe menu ranging from $350 to $500 per person not including alcohol. The meals include five appetizers, a sushi entrée with up to 20 types of seafood flown directly from Japan and a dessert course served with tea.

The other restaurants that fill up the top 10 list can be seen here.

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10 new uses...

...for coffee filters.

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Five great ways...

...to leave a tip.

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Conversation With A Burglar

The Best Place To Hide Money

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Nostalgic mail

What happened when you mailed a letter in 1951, an era when they still had a big network of pneumatic tubes connecting all of the post offices in Manhattan.

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Top 10 Foods...

...for a good night's sleep.

"What is the secret to getting a solid 7 to 8 hours of sleep? Head for the kitchen and enjoy one or two of these 10 foods. They relax tense muscles, quiet buzzing minds, and/or get calming, sleep-inducing hormones - serotonin and melatonin - flowing. Yawning yet?"

Comparing San Jose...

...between 1975 and 2005.



Gallery here.

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Are all the Xs on The Departed...

...just a coincidence or have and additional meaning?
Click here for the gallery and take your own conclusions.

The Simpsonzu

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Then and now

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The science...

...behind why people cry.

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New stuff

100 things we didn't know last year

Just 20 words make up a third of teenagers' everyday speech.

The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.

Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.

Eating a packet of crisps a day is equivalent to drinking five litres of cooking oil a year.

While 53% of households have access to a garage, only 24% use them for parking cars.

Believe it or not...

...this is the official federal-government highway to Yakutsk, in Russia, one of the top five most dangerous roads in the world.

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Names of things...

...you never knew had names:

AGLET
The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.

ARMSAYE
The armhole in clothing.

CHANKING
Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.

COLUMELLA NASI
The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.

DRAGÉES
Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.

FEAT
A dangling curl of hair.

FERRULE
The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.

HARP
The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.

HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER
A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)

JARNS, NITTLES, GRAWLIX and QUIMP
Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.

KEEPER
The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.

KICK or PUNT
The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.

LIRIPIPE
The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.

MINIMUS
The little finger or toe.

NEF
An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.

OBDORMITION
The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is `asleep'.

OCTOTHORPE
The symbol `#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.

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