Random factoids from the BBC.
28. The word "celeb" is not a recent invention - it was used in a letter to Woodrow Wilson in 1913. The word "sex", used to mean sexual intercourse, was first used in 1929.
Seriously? 1929? Was everyone just calling it "the beast with two backs" before then?
43. In 1911, Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa.
Wow. Neat.
70. And reports of UFOs have dwindled since the late 1990s. In the UK, sightings have gone from about 30 a week to almost zero; it's a trend echoed in the US and Norway.
They must have lost their funding.
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Gerry Canavan @ 2:20 PM
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