More things we learnt in 2005.
From the BBC.
41. Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange
ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street.
42. Britain's smallest church, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, opens
just once a year. It measures 4m by 3.6m and has one pew.
43. The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units.
44. Rubber gloves could save you from lightning.
45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the
actors don't get on.
46. Driving at 159mph - reached by the police driver cleared of
speeding - it would take nearly a third of a mile to stop.
47. Liverpool has 42 cranes redeveloping the city centre.
48. A quarter of the world's clematis come from one Guernsey
nursery, where production will top 4.5m plants this year alone.
49. Tim Henman has a tennis court at his new home in Oxfordshire
which he has never used.
50. Only 36% of the world's newspapers are tabloid.
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2 comments:
hah, i knew I was right to go for theorange set:-)
A few years ago I heard that 50% of all cranes in the world were in Bejing. Not China, but just Bejing! That's growth!
Mrs A said: hah, i knew I was right to go for the orange set:-)
Maybe that's always been my downfall... No over all strategy.
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