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100 things we didn't know last year
Jan. 7th, 2008 05:55 pmhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2008/01/100_things_we_didnt_know_last_3.shtml
3. Adding milk to tea negates the health-giving effects of a hot brew.
15. 10% of university work from across the UK is plagiarised.
21. Only about half of China's population can speak the national language, Mandarin.
32. Anti-Americanism began in Paris in the 18th Century.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6547881.stm
America is ordinary... It celebrates the pursuit of small-scale happiness - in families and communities - and that is what the anti-Americans can't stand.
America became the nightmare that French right-wing intellectuals long feared, a nation built not on respectable ties of blood and tradition but on the self-conscious desire to create something new.
57. Sleeping on the job is tolerated in Japanese work culture, as long as you remain upright and obey certain other rules. It's called inemuri.
80. Adults use maths skills 14 times daily on average and literacy skills 23 times a day.
3. Adding milk to tea negates the health-giving effects of a hot brew.
15. 10% of university work from across the UK is plagiarised.
21. Only about half of China's population can speak the national language, Mandarin.
32. Anti-Americanism began in Paris in the 18th Century.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6547881.stm
America is ordinary... It celebrates the pursuit of small-scale happiness - in families and communities - and that is what the anti-Americans can't stand.
America became the nightmare that French right-wing intellectuals long feared, a nation built not on respectable ties of blood and tradition but on the self-conscious desire to create something new.
57. Sleeping on the job is tolerated in Japanese work culture, as long as you remain upright and obey certain other rules. It's called inemuri.
80. Adults use maths skills 14 times daily on average and literacy skills 23 times a day.
