The BBC web-site has articles as well as news and information about TV and radio programmes. I mentioned something posted there last week, ten things we didn’t know – apparently. Well, this week here are ten more things…
- Jamaica, Colombia and Saint Lucia are the only countries in the world where a woman is more likely to be a boss than a man – I guess this might be in the pub quiz, so maybe I need to know
- No-one has won a Spot The Ball competition for 10 years – I didn’t know they still had spot the ball
- You can buy a Lycra outfit for a camel – well, that’s rather a lovely thought… what colour I wonder?.
- Shredded Wheat’s early packaging recommended serving it with a poached egg – shredded wheat was first produced in 1890
- Edwards County, Texas, has roughly one person and 22 goats per square mile – maybe if you lived there you might be interested, or if you were a goat
- One in 10 of Britain’s train carriages flush toilet waste straight onto the railway tracks – I didn’t realise this still happened… pretty disgusting in 2015!
- Men are less promiscuous when women are scarce – pretty obvious I would have thought
- A recently published image of a thresher shark giving birth may be the only photograph ever taken of an oceanic shark in labour – OK…
- About 30 copies of Charlie Hebdo are sold in the UK in a normal week – most people had never heard of it until last week… sad that the reason we now know of it is because of the vile outrage committed at their offices
- Thundersnow is like a thunderstorm but brighter, less noisy and with snow instead of rain – yes, the weatherman told me.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-30848840
Lois Elsden 