Facts from last week's news coverage pureed for your enjoyment!

Embee reads a lot of useless interesting information on Cefax.... here are a few snippets I picked up (actually I did read some it in the daily papers last week):

10 Things we didn't know before or maybe you did!!!!!.......

• brain chemical 'OXYTOCIN' makes us trust strangers with money even if they have betrayed us already (I clearly don't have much in my brain because I don't think I would be that gullible!)
• you can (lesson)lessen (spelling corrected as pointed out by no 1 daughter!) jet-lag by not eating (not difficult given the standard of cuisine on most airlines!)
  
• 27% of people have opened a bottle with their teeth (I'm not one of them!!)
• the $100 laptop now costs $75 (oh well~ someone needs to change the advert!)
• a larger proportion of rural homes than urban dwellings have broadband (so!)
• the word 'NICE' originally meant foolish or silly (I don't know about you but I was taught to think of an alternative adjective, even so I still use it sometimes!)
• skunks can be de-scented to make better pets (I don't think I would fancy a skunk as a pet-would you?)
• women drivers are three times more likely to suffer whiplash if their car is hit from behind (so watch out ladies!)
• Britain has 5th largest Jewish population in the world (I believe a lot of Jews settled here during the war and a lot of people are still coming here~ I won't get into a debate on immigration!)
  
• Archbishop of Canterbury Rowen Williams is deaf in one ear (I really needed to know this!)

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