- '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.
- Online gambling is banned in Australia.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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).
- Low-energy bulbs pose health and environment risks if they are not disposed of properly.
- You can turn a Nintendo DS into an organiser.
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