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debt
  • Total UK personal debt has exceeded £1 ¼ trillion and at the end of November 2006 it stood at £1,278bn

tuna
  • Did you know a tuna called the ‘Blue Fin’ tuna can be sold for over $20,000 around the world?

Monroe, Marilyn
  • Marilyn Monroe’s real name is Norma Jean. (after all this time…)
  • A movie reel containing a footage of Marilyn Monroe doing explicits was sold at an auction for $1.5 million, unlike her contemporary counterpart Paris.
  • She NEVER had 6 toes on either foot. The misconception was because of a photograph at the beach

London bridge
  • The “London Bridge” is now in Arizona in the U.S.A. This fat cat(rich guy) bought it for only $2.46 million dollars.Click here Thanx Allen A.

Happy birthday
  • Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song “Happy Birthday”

gold
  • If all the gold in the ocean were mined, every person on Earth would get about 20 kgs of gold each. Thanx clem

Canadian dollar
  • On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.Thanx Doug B. and Dwain
  • Canada actually comes from the word ‘Kanata’, a Huron or Iroquois word for village, and Canada is a ‘big village’


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