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HARI KARI? HARI KUYO!

May 21st 2009 10:49
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In Japan, every village has a shrine dedicated to broken sewing needles. Yes, that's right, broken sewing needles! The name for this shrine is Hari Kuyo.

This is done in the belief that a sewing needle which has performed its task well over its entire life and in the service of others, has 'died' whilst in active service. Broken needles are therefore laid to rest on a soft bed of tofu.
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REVENGE Publicised for Posterity!!! Moral Included!

November 30th 2008 23:45
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This gravestone is located in the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery, Montreal, Section C, Plot: 01369.

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The TOP 10 FUNERAL Songs of the UK!

September 30th 2008 13:01
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Here is the top 10 list of the most popular songs requested for funerals in Britain according to the UK's The Bereavement Register.

1. Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt
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ALL The TEA In CHINA!

August 4th 2008 21:31
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Most of us have heard the phrase "all the tea in China", as in " I wouldn't give up xxxx for all the tea in China".

But how much tea is there really in the whole of China???
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Top Hats! A Menace To Society!!!

July 9th 2008 10:30
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James Heatherington, the inventor of the top hat, introduced his design to the world in London during 1797.

Upon leaving the shop wearing his unusual headwear he was surrounded by a crowd of onlookers where some pushing and shoving ensued, resulting in women fainting and a young boy having his arm broken.
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United Kingdom Car Registration Plates

April 10th 2008 10:52
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Just a little something we noticed recently about car registration plates in the UK. They all have a white plate on the front of the car and a yellow on the back? Hmmm.....

You can also tell a lot about somebody's car from their licence plate over here - it's built into the numbers and lettering of the plates as to the year model of the car, the time of year it was originally registered at and the region the car was purchased.
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The MOST Populated TIME ZONE In The WORLD!

January 13th 2008 00:05
With so many people living all over the world and with so much of our planet consisting of water, if you had to make a guess at the world time zone in which most people live, where do you imagine it would be?
World map free

You not only have to balance out water and land versus population, but also where those populations actually exist, that is to say that while it's fine to say that Australia only has 21 million people as the Australian Bureau of Statistics is now claiming, the majority live along the coastal areas due to the inhospitable nature of Australia's arid interior.
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A White Christmas For England???

December 13th 2007 00:05
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There is really only one present my 8 year old daughter wants for Christmas this year having now relocated to the UK.

In short, after a number of smelly, sweaty, stinky Christmases in the Great Land Downunder, she wants to experience a 'White Christmas' ie. snow on Christmas day.
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Christmas SPENDING HABITS Of The UK 2007!!!

December 10th 2007 00:05
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Professionals at Deloitte have compiled the results of their annual survey, showing that the wet weather has dampened some of the expected results of Christmas shopping for 2007 in the UK, but overall British consumers are quite willing to fork out this Christmas, whilst also being very ‘canny’ about the items they spend their money on.

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Still On Hiatus

November 5th 2007 10:47
Hi all, thanks to our internet provider who has not been providing internet, our temporary hiatus has become much longer than expected. I've managed to squeeze a few moments out of somebody else's internet for this post, but I won't have much more for at the earliest half a week, but hopefully by this time next week at least.

So the facts I give today will be a brief fun-down of where we're at personally.
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Finally Here In The UK

September 6th 2007 15:09
British Airways
Hello all, we have emerged sort-of finally in the UK in surprisingly (for the moment anyway ) in sunny Manchester.
We don't have internet as yet although we have applied for it, so I am currently running from a library on a 'guest' pass with a lot of limitations, so I ask you all to bear with me just a little longer.....
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One Recently Recorded Coincidence!

August 15th 2007 00:35
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After the recent death of the world's oldest person, a Japanese woman by the name of Yone Minagawa who died a this August 14th at the age of 114, the title has now passed to a U.S. citizen, Edna Parker, also 114 years old.

By sheer coincidence Edna, now the current world title holder, also shares her nursing home accommodation with the world's tallest living woman, Sandy Allen, who at her tallest measured height came in at 7'7 1/4" or 2.32m!
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SCRABBLEY FACTS - The Facts On SCRABBLE!

July 30th 2007 00:35
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* Scrabble was invented in 1948.

* The inventor of Scrabble, Alfred Butts, was not very good at it.
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If You Dug A Hole Through The Centre Of The World, Where Would You End Up?

April 22nd 2007 00:20
Well I think the title of today's post sums it up fairly well.

If you were to dig a hole from where you are now, through the centre of the world, just where would you end up?
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