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Professor said:
Sounds good!!
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Professor said:
from all would be great, don't go out of your way. ?
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And away we go (as of publication in 2017):

1423 is the Guinness World Record for the largest number of authors at a simultaneous book signing.

1 in 4 Americans didn’t read a book last year.

A book by George H.W Bush’s dog spent 23 weeks on the US bestseller list.

Theresa May owns more than 100 cookbooks.

John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, has a cat called Order.

There are 125,000 stray cats in Istanbul.

The average Australian cat eats more fish per year than the average Australian.

Cuttlefish have three hearts.

The North American mosquito fish can count up to four.

Fish can see 70 times further in air than in water.

Golden-winged warblers can detect tornadoes from 560 miles away.

35 tornadoes are reported in Britain each year.
 
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Connoisseur said:
And away we go (as of publication in 2017):

1423 is the Guinness World Record for the largest number of authors at a simultaneous book signing.

1 in 4 Americans didn’t read a book last year.

A book by George H.W Bush’s dog spent 23 weeks on the US bestseller list.

Theresa May owns more than 100 cookbooks.

John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, has a cat called Order.

There are 125,000 stray cats in Istanbul.

The average Australian cat eats more fish per year than the average Australian.

Cuttlefish have three hearts.

The North American mosquito fish can count up to four.

Fish can see 70 times further in air than in water.

Golden-winged warblers can detect tornadoes from 560 miles away.

35 tornadoes are reported in Britain each year.
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In 1973, the entire Internet consisted of only 43 computers.

iPhones in Venezuela cost the equivalent of £80,000 each.

Indonesia has a volcano that emits blue flames.

Iceland has more volcanoes than footballers.

More than half of the Earth’s surface is not subject to any nations laws.

It is illegal to sell Stilton cheese made in the village of Stilton.

In northern Italy, cheese is acceptable as security on a bank loan.

An Italian estate agent was the inspiration for the handsome, sadistic hero of Fifty Shades of Grey.

The film of Fifty Shades of Grey was banned in Cambodia because it depicted ‘insane romance’.

North Korea banned the disaster movie 2012 in cased it jinked the year 2012.

In French, Jaws became ‘The Teeth of the Sea’.

The spiders used in Spider-Man and Arachnophobia were social huntsman spiders and completely harmless.
 
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