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- Mediawatch-UK (organisation that monitors broadcasts for violence, sex and bad language) is the current (since 2001) name of Mary Whitehouse's National Viewers' and Listeners' Association.
- One-fifth of Americans have never used email.
- Border agents in the US can search your laptop or any other electronic device when you enter the country. UK customs agents search laptops too.
- Chaka Khan has a sister named Taka Boom (real names: Yvette and Yvonne Stevens).
- Oxytocin (the 'hormone of love' and trust) is destroyed in the stomach and must therefore be injected or inhaled.
- Kelly Watch the Stars (1998 track by French duo Air) is inspired by Jaclyn Smith's character Kelly Garrett in 70s TV series Charlie's Angels.
- In 2006 the UK environment minister urged shoppers to leave excess wrapping and packaging at the tills. Can anyone explain to me why most cucumbers are shrink-wrapped?
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