Things I learned today (Part 1)

In Denmark, if you’re still unmarried upon your 25th birthday, it’s customary to have cinnamon thrown on you.

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Only Fools And Horses was very popular in the former Yugoslavia and the repeats still air.

Boycie is even having a street named after him in Belgrade.

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The average life expectancy in Cambodia in 1977 was 18.91 years

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less than the average age of the combat soldier in vietnam

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In Vietnam, he was 19

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What was it in World War 2?

Ne ne ne nineteen

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In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six

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None of them received a hero’s welcome.

A hogan is a traditional Navajo Indian hut made of logs and earth.

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The greatest number of police officers ever on duty at a UK football match was in 1979, when over 1,900 officers were present to guard against trouble when Crusaders played Cliftonville at Seaview Stadium.

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In 19th century London, 8 railway terminus stations were built over 12 years.

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The introduction of farming in pre history led the average height of humans to fall by six inches.

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Why was that ?

Farming led to a much poorer diet than they had as Hunter gatherers and because they lived in closer proximity much more illness.

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The switch from mate to broccoli.

Being a big lanky shtreak is key when persistence hunting across the Serengeti but a butty fella with a few rolls of electric fence could keep a few Angus not a bother.

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Accrington Stanley, famous for the ‘Who are they?’ advert, were founding members of the English Football League.

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Mia Sara, who played Sloane Peterson in Ferris Buellers Day Off, married Jason Connery, son of Sean, in 1996. They divorced in 2002. She later remarried in 2010, to a Brian Henson, son of Jim Henson.