- Fabric softener can make your acne worse because it's oily and you rub towels and bed linen constantly on your skin.
- A person who is attracted to an overweight sexual partner is called a chubby chaser.
- Your RSS feed URL shows your Twitter user number. Via Steve Rubel.
- The theremin was the first musical instrument designed to be played without being touched. It consists of two radio frequency oscillators and two metal antennae. The electric signals from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker. Via Boing Boing's link to a theremin cover version of Gnars Barkley's Crazy.
- Haukur Eiríksson (Icelandic entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2007) was one-third of ICY (first ever Eurovision Icelandic entry in 1986). Via an email from Nabazhack's author Geir Freysson.
- The message 'Handler could not be removed' you get when accessing some weblogs seems to have been due to the WordPress Feedlist plugin. You should not get that any longer on Bitful after the stripped down redesign.
- Shia Islam allows a man and woman to marry for a fixed period of time, ranging from an hour to a century. It can be used as a solution to avoid falling foul of strict Islamic morality laws but is also criticised as a cover for prostitution, and for the tens of thousands of children from temporary marriages whose fathers will not acknowledge them and are therefore considered illegitimate.
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