21 July 2017
Half of all the plastic that has ever existed was made in the last 13 years.
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The Queen’s Duchy of Lancaster estate made a profit of £19.2 million last year, more than eight-and-a-half times what the BBC pays Chris Evans.
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100 people a day have been visiting a 74-year-old widow in Cambodia who is living with a 5-month-old calf that she says is the reincarnation of her husband.
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‘Sham surgery’, where patients undergo fake operations (including anaesthesia) but without any actual surgery, works as well as the real thing 50% of the time.
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Pre-cooked French eggs used in British restaurants and sandwich bars may be as much as 26 days old.
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A psychiatric hospital in Belgium has a collection of 3,000 human brains.