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21 Nov 2009
For the Masai people of Tanzania, Africa, spitting is considered a show of goodwill. Newborn babies are spat upon to bring the child luck, and deals are often closed only after the traders spit upon one another.
The Nazi-sympathist song 'Don't Let's Be Beastly to the German's', was sung seven times in one evening by Noel Coward, at the request of Winston Churchill.
If China imported just 10 per cent of its rice needs the price on the world market would increase by 80 per cent.
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed people do.
Currently, about 40 per cent of women in their fifties and early sixties in the US and about 33 per cent of such women in Britain now take hormones every day (i.e. HRT - Hormone Replacement Therapy)
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