- Pale Male (the Fifth Avenue hawk) is known to have sired 26 chicks with four mates. It is not the only hawk in Central Park, and they mostly prefer nesting on buildings (the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the Trump Park hotel, a residential housing cooperative at 927 Fifth Avenue) rather than on trees.
- UK workers get the least paid leave in Europe: 28 days per year. We still are better off than Canada and Japan (10 days) or the US (no legal minimum for paid leave.
- If you share a link with a friend within a message in Facebook, you get to choose which of the images from that webpage will be shown alonside the link. Title and description are auto-populated with the website's data, and editable.
- You cannot log on to Spokeo from Firefox if the coComment extension is installed. Hats off to Harrison from Spokeo who sorted it out for me in no time.
- Chris Evans often takes out his rubbish naked. I am researching property prices in his neighbourhood then. And no, it's not Chris Evans the UK DJ and TV personality, but Chris Evans the American Fantastic Four star.
- Amazon's got a better memory than I have - unfortunately. This week I was alerted that 'As someone who has purchased or rated music by Darren Hayes, you might like to know that This Delicate Thing We've Made will be released on 20 August 2007.' I did what? Then it dawned on me, it was a present for my ex. Phew.
- Lily Allen's brother (the weed-smoking subject of Alright Still's closing track 'Alfie') is an actor like his father Keith. Alfie Allen has landed a role in Casualty's 1900s spin-off.
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