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At that speed it’s hard to tell whether it’s good or bad to be honest. All you know is it’s fast. Faster than the dude with the knives on Heroes.

Some of you may already know that I strongly support the BloggersUnite initiative and today is the day they have asked us to help spread the word and help to bring donations to those who really need it.  It’s right that we should all do what we can in such horrific times.
I’m not going to hammer this [...]

Okay,..that doesn’t seem like much of a fact right? Well, this isn’t one of my regular posts.
For those who don’t know @OMGFacts, you’d probably be interested to know that they are the most retweeted user on Twitter. In their own words..
“Apparently people like to know pointless things.”
Well it turns out not everything is [...]

The beautiful town of Bethel, Maine is place where, apparently, the “common is uncommon”.  Where Brooks Bros. sells pliers and wrenches, Victoria’s Secret is a chocolate raspberry desert and where Timberland Outlet is an exit for logging trucks.  It’s also a place where they just love building whack-off great snowmen!
Built in 1998 and finished in 1999, this [...]

According to recent research, around 45% of Americans make a new years resolution. The common common ones center around losing weight, exercising more, handling debt better and stopping smoking.
Obviously, many people don’t keep their resolutions. The figures say that after 6 months, only 46% of resolutions have been kept with 75% kept after [...]

This however isn’t the greatest problem. There is a huge gap in literacy per gender with 76.9% of men being literate but only 54.55% of Indian women being literate which has been shown to have a dramatically negative impact on family planning and population stabilization efforts.
This gap appears to be narrowing but there is [...]

Along with spiders, some of the most commonly feared things are snakes, heights, water, enclosed spaces, tunnels and bridges, social rejection, failure, and public speaking.
Oddly, the fear of death has been shown to be most prevalent in those of us whom are  ’slightly religious’ with atheists coming in second and the completely devout being least afraid.