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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. 'Granola' is not American English for 'muesli'. Granola is crispy baked oats with nuts and honey, muesli is uncooked oats with dried fruit, nuts and seeds.
  2. Online gambling is banned in Australia.
  3. It costs an average of six months' salary to rent an apartment in Japan (including the equivalent of two months' rent as 'reikin', a non-refundable gift to the landlord). That leaves you 'hikoshi-bimbo' (moving poor).
  4. Katie Price a.k.a. Jordan has a series of several pony books out, and more to come in 2008. Get them while they're young, I guess.
  5. There's a sizeable market in extremely realistic (some breathe, some are even made to look premature) state-of-the-art designer newborn baby dolls called 'reborns'. I missed the Channel 4 documentary 'My Fake Baby', you can still catch it on 4oD (requires Windows XP or Vista and Internet Explorer 5.5 or over).
  6. Low-energy bulbs pose health and environment risks if they are not disposed of properly.
  7. You can turn a Nintendo DS into an organiser.

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