THE PRICE OF electricity has risen by 40% in the last six years.
WHEN YOU ARE dissatisfied and would like to go back to your youth, think of algebra.
THE HIGHEST PAID female athletes are all tennis players: M Sharapova (in million U.S. dollars) $29, S Williams $20.5, L Na $18.2.
NIKITA KRUSHCHEV was elected First Secretary of the Communist Party on Sept 12th 1953. Exactly eighteen years later he died in obscurity.
THE AVERAGE AMERICAN walks 1.4 miles a week – 350 metres a day.
THE SPACECRAFT HELIOS 2 reached the top speed attained by human technology of 240,000 kph, this by using the sun’s gravity as a kind of slingshot.
PROCRASTINATION IS the art of keeping up with yesterday.
SIXTEEN OF WINSTON CHURCHILL’S brainchild, code named ‘tank’ , rolled into action on the Somme on 14th September 1916. Weighing in at 30 ton and impervious to machine gun fire they rolled along at 4 miles per hour.
EDUCATION IS when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t.
THE BIG BANG is estimated to have happened 13.7 billion years ago.
THE ASHES SERIES leading wicket takers are S Warne 195 wickets, D Lillee 167 and G McGrath 157 – and they are all from Australia.
THE COLDEST POINT in space is the Boomerang Nebula at minus 272.15 degrees centigrade.
MALAYSIA BECAME INDEPENDENT on September 16th 1963 and a mob burned down the British Embassy in celebration.
BOZONE: the substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating – shows little sign of breaking down in the future.
THE GUILLIOTINE was eventually abolished in France by President Mitterand’s government in 1981.
THE FIRST PASSENGER TRAIN of 32 carriages pulled by George Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’ ran the 43 kms between Shildom and Stockton taking under three hours.
JOHN COBB the British holder of water and land speed records died when his boat ‘Crusader’ hit waves and disintegrated when travelling at 384 kph on Loch Ness in 1952.
LIKEWISE JAMES DEAN star of such films as ‘Giant’, ‘Rebel without a cause’, ‘The Waterfront’ and ‘East of Eden’ succumbed to speed crashing his Porsche in 1955.
THERE ARE TWO THEORIES on arguing with a woman – neither work. So never miss a good chance to shut up.
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