Newspapers are great. I buy one almost every day. Today’s Times is a perfect example of why. Here’s what I learned.
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You can buy fake Ferraris.
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769 million kilos of potatoes are eaten every year in Belgium; 86% of the potatoes grown in Belgium are processed into chips and crisps and 1588 is the year Belgians claim to have invented the chip, one year after potatoes were introduced.
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In March 1891 it snowed so badly that a train went missing when it got stuck on one of the remotest parts of Dartmoor. Three days later it was found and the crew and passengers were released.
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An critically sick eight-day-old Palestinian baby has been transferred from the Gaza Strip to a specialist children’s hospital in Tel Aviv where he will get the emergency treatment required to save his life.
The last story is particularly heartwarming.
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My Twitterfeed- geoff_bilbrough: Nutrition on le Tour http://bit.ly/rWIvH
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- geoff_bilbrough: RT @Pocketlint: NEWS: Microsoft to target Apple Stores for new shop locations http://bit.ly/idQCg
- geoff_bilbrough: ManCity are in for David Bentley! From Eto'o to Bentley how the mighty have fallen.
- geoff_bilbrough: @philbilbrough you need to get out more
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- geoff_bilbrough: @Vinoteca put these words at the start of your sentence "what i want to say is..."
- geoff_bilbrough: you need at least one update before i'll follow
- geoff_bilbrough: RT @MiramarMike: RT @chrisnoble_nz: Tsunami warning cancelled by PWTC: http://is.gd/1zAi2
- geoff_bilbrough: off to the boy's prizegiving - it won't be 100% attendance
- geoff_bilbrough: RT @exectweets: "Computers let you make more mistakes faster than any invention in history - with the exception of handguns & tequila"
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- geoff_bilbrough: RT @abelpharmboy via @sciencepond I awoke today wanting to drink wine and storm a prison.
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