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7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. You no longer need to fill in any paperwork to pay a cheque into your account. Just hand in the cheque in your name and your debit card over the counter, and it's done. At least with Nationwide.
  2. Styrofoam cups will be around forever, whereas banana peels biodegrade in just three weeks, newspaper in one month, cotton in three months and wool in one year. Via Life After Humans video preview.
  3. Firefox doesn't break lines at hyphens, whereas IE does.
  4. Nick Kamen's I Promised Myself was covered by Dead Or Alive, by A-Teens and more recently by Operación Triunfo's José Galisteo.
  5. Robbie Nevil (who had a few hits in 1986, among which C'est La Vie) co-wrote three songs on the High School Musical soundtrack.
  6. Travellers who 'smuggle' poppy seeds face Dubai jail. And that's the ordinary poppy seeds found on bread or pastries.
  7. Peaches and Feist were roommates.

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