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Oben am jungen Rhein, the Liechtenstein national anthem is sung to the same tune as the United Kingdom's God Save the Queen, but obviously with different lyrics.

It's a pretty out of it country to be honest. Look it up, it's so weird.

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It is estimated that 1 out of 10 children in Europe are conceived on an IKEA bed.

On a side note. WHY DON'T WE HAVE IKEA IN NEW ZEALAND?

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The Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw spears into the water at random.

Silly prick.

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Over 300 physiological processes in the human body require magnesium to function optimally.

Eat your leafy greens kids.

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Haven't done one of these for a while mainly due to a combination of laziness and a lack of interesting enough facts. But here we go..

The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.

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I recently purchased some stationary from Smiggle. Not for me. Although if I was a 10 year old girl it would be a pretty youth gangs store. I have stolen my fact from their shopping bag which are made from bamboo.

Bamboo is a highly renewable material. Bamboo is one of the earth's fastest growing plants + releases 35% more oxygen than equivalent timber. Bamboo needs no replanting, grows without fertilizers or pesticides with an astounding growth cycle of 3-5 years compared to 15-20 years for most timbers.

Pretty mean aye? This got me thinking about some stuff. Countries should see whether their climates suit bamboo, if they do then have a trial run to see what kinda growth happens. If all that shit above is true then bamboo is the way of the future if you ask me. I do not mind a few tasty bamboo shoots in my curries when I'm eating Thai food. This got me thinking about more stuff. What can bamboo be used for? So after some extensive research (slash Googled 'ool uses of bambo', good ol' Google though, he/she? always knows what I want and instead searched for cool uses of bamboo) I found this Green Blog with some pretty amazing pictures:

 19 Interesting Ways we Use Bamboo.

I leave you with my favourite bamboo joke of all time:

A panda walks into a cafe, sits down, and orders a sandwich. He eats the sandwich, pulls out a gun, and shoots the waiter dead.

As the panda stands up to go, the manager shouts, "Hey! Where are you going? You just shot my waiter, and you didn't even pay for your sandwich!"

"Hey, man, I'm a PANDA!" the panda shouts back. "Look it up!"
The manager opens his encyclopedia and reads: "Panda: a tree-dwelling mammal of Asian origin, characterized by distinct black and white coloring. Eats shoots and leaves."

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The word 'testify' derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles.

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The other day I enlightened you to the interesting fact that 95,000 people cross the equator more than 4 times a day. Since this time, I have tried to justify this astounding fact with some basic equations/assumptions to try and see if this is quite a reasonable statistic.

There are 10 notable countries that lie on the equator - Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, Ecuador, Columbia and Brazil- so the figure of 95,000 would not be out of the picture. However, the one factor I struggle to get my head around is the '4 times a day'. 4 times is quite a frequent occurrence to cross a given line in everyday life.

The Developed World

Imagine for arguments sake that Greenlane Rd was the equator - not many people would cross that line more than 4 times a day. The majority of people would cross the line maybe twice (going too and from work/school) but to hit 4 crossings would require an after work/school commitment such as sport, gym, visiting a girlfriend, or getting dinner. Occupations that would cause people to cross the line 4 times could include - taxi drivers, bus drivers, policeman, couriers, koreans (lol), delivery drivers and maybe homeless people (not so much of an occupation but do move round a lot).

The DevelopING World

Population density is obviously a lot lower in these areas so the majority of the 95,000 would come from the developed world. However, members of a village may be required to travel to the local well or go hunting in an area that sits on the equator. The village itself may also sit on the equator so people moving from hut to hut could be crossing over the line. Africans also love soccer so a few games of soccer could be going on on the equator with people running over it frequently.

Didn't really come to a conclusion with this but it is food for thought nonetheless

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I for one am a huge fan of the interesting and sometimes pointless facts that exist in this world. That is why I will try and enlighten you to one of these facts on a weekly basis. These facts can be used as great conversation starters and are great to impress the ladies with.

Approximately 95,000 people cross the equator more than four times a day.