- London Underground's Jubilee Line was originally going to be called Fleet Line after the river Fleet (now subterranean). Plans to go east towards Fleet Street were shelved, and the line's battleship grey colour ('fleet') became silver for the Jubilee after which it was eventually named.
- Before time zones were invented, most cities relied upon their own local 'sun' time, which changed by approximately one minute for every 12 1/2 miles traveled east or west. Thus, Birmingham was 7½ minutes behind London.
- The format of The Graham Norton Show (the much-anticipated return to form of Graham Norton's rumoured 4 million pound a year contract with the BBC) is exactly the same as the (far, far cheaper) shows he did five years ago for Channel Four.
- Smoking alters brain 'like drugs': smokers have higher levels of dopamine translators in areas of the brain related to motivation and reward. The changes may persist for many years and contribute to relapse. I quit smoking four years ago next week and this scares me.
- Britney Spears published A Mother's Gift in 2001. Her detractors will be pleased to know that this is not a parenthood manual, but a novel she co-wrote with her mother Lynne.
- You can get your Second Life avatar high on Seclimine, which produces hypnotic motion graphics and audio for about half an hour.
- A terabyte (=1024GB) of data is enough to store the next 60 years of your life - well, at least everything you read - on and offline, including books, all the music you purchase, eight hours of speech and 10 pictures a day.
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