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7 things I did not know last week

1. BBC TV programmes end credits have to be center justified.
2. Simon Amstell co-wrote an episode of Skins.
3. 70 is 21 in celsius, as written on the card I got Dr B.'s dad for his 70th birthday.
4. Almost all the title sequences in Woody Allen's films are white Windsor font on black background. Via kottke.org.
5. The original Google hard disks were encased in Lego bricks.
6. The Complete Plain Words, a plain English style manual for civil servants, has never been out of print since publication in 1954.
7. Glycemic load is a better indication of the impact of carbs than Glycemic Index (GI).

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