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This particular form of writing evolved around the 34th Century BC from a Mesopotamian form of counting that has been dated back even further than that; as early as 8,000 BC! You know when they talk about ancient Aramaic in the movies; this is way older.

Most people quite reasonably think that the largest pyramid in the world would be in Egypt but this is not so. In terms of volume, Cholula dwarfs any other man made structure on Earth at a massive 4.45 million m³!

Plenty of criminal and law related twacts this week in celebration of crime week. Hope you like them.

We all love hearing about weird laws around the world and the Singapore legal system is just bursting with them. I reckon it’s almost impossible to enforce a law like this one but who knows,..maybe they just burst in to your bedroom and wait around, just to make sure! Though saying that, that might be considered pornography, which is illegal too. Read on to see more of Singapore’s weird laws.

Yep, don’t mess around in China or you’re proper in for it! In 2007, China executed 470 people for all kinds of crimes with 2nd placed Iran coming in at only 317.

What a crazy week for Twitter! I think it took me about half an hour to get rid of all the “Haha, is this you???” messages we got from that phishing attack. Still, the show must go on so these are the facts we put on twitter this week; hope you like them…

In 2006, this and other genes were given more professional sounding names because they were considered insensitive to those who suffer from mutations of these genes. I mean, how would you like to be told you have a genetic mutation in your ‘faint sausage’? Or that you are particularly sensitive to alcohol because you have a mutated ‘cheap date’ gene? Exactly!