EPISODE THREE
Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss topless angels, grumpy bank notes and six-legged, sex-crazed 17-year-olds.
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Friday 03 June, 23:05, BBC Two
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The polymer that makes our new money will start out as a 4-storey high bubble.
US money is made of cotton and linen, and people once repaired them by sewing them together.
Incinerated bank notes were once used to heat the bank note making site.
Jane Austen on the new bank notes has been made to look more attractive.
Previously worthless £100 trillion dollar Zimbabwean notes are now worth £40.
FACT THREE
THE JUDGE WHO RULED THAT ALL UK TOBACCO PACKETS HAVE TO BE GREEN IS CALLED MR JUSTICE GREEN
James
James
The Gotthard tunnel opening ceremony contained nudity - and plenty more besides
100,000 people are expected to attend the Gotthard opening festival this weekend
This app lets you build your own Gotthard Base Tunnel
The boring machines that drilled the tunnel are the size of 4 football pitches
The Laerdal tunnel in Norway is designed to keep drivers awake
The Blackwall Tunnel is bendy so that horses didn’t bolt for the light at the end of it
James
Cicadas have a good reason for only surfacing in prime-numbered years
A Rising Creek bakery is making cicada cookies
Edible locusts have been rebranded as sky prawns
You can catch a cicada by clicking your fingers
Female cicadas sometimes try to mate with lawnmowers
Cicadas insert plugs into females after sex so they can’t mate with anyone else
They can also transmit STIs that cause the butt to drop off altogether