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7 things

7 things I did not know last week

A week on a calendar
  1. Twitter only lets its users retrieve the last 3,200 updates they’ve entered into the system.
  2. Venice residents get free city-wide wi-fi. Tourists need to pay about $7 a day.
  3. The word oxymoron means 'sharply dull' in Greek.
  4. There are 100,000 people buried under Washington Square Park in NYC.
  5. Animal welfare legislation generally applies only to vertebrates.
  6. Excessive amounts of alcohol interferes with REM sleep.
  7. A trip to the dentist before brain surgery could prevent pneumonia.
Posted by Luca in 7 things on Saturday 18 July 2009. Please leave a comment

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