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Things you never knew you wanted to know...
TEN Genuine Maniacs Philopatridomaniac - A person who is always homesick. Bruxomaniac - A person who is always grinding their teeth. Klazomaniac - A person who is always shouting. Catapedamaniac - A person who is always thinking about jumping from high places. Onychotillomaniac - A person who is always picking their nails. Cresomaniac - A person who is always thinking about how wealthy they are. Phagomaniac - A person who is always thinking about food. Titillomaniac - A person who is always scratching. Erythromaniac - A person who is always blushing. Dromomaniac - A person who is always travelling.
TEN Pop Groups And How They Got Their Names Human League from a computer game. The Beautiful South after South London. The Teardrop Explodes from a comic caption. Blur from a list drawn up by their record company. Mick Hucknall asked how he wanted to be introduced, said ‘Red’, a childhood nickname. Asked to clarify it he said ‘Simply Red’. The Communards from the late 19th century Paris revolutionaries. The Pet Shop Boys after a couple of friends who ran a pet shop in Ealing. Dire Straits from a friend noting their finances. The Doors from Aldous Huxley’s ‘All the other chemical doors in the Wall are labeled dope.’ The Eurythmics after a dance/mime form based on Greek teachings of music through movement.
TEN Thing To Know About The Human Race Men get more ulcers than women. Children have more taste-buds than adults. On one square inch of our skin, there are twenty million microscopic animals The human body grows the equivalent of a new skeleton every seven years. A newborn baby’s heart beats twice as fast as an adult’s. A quarter of the 206 bones in the human body are in the feet. The human body grows the equivalent of a new skin every eleven months. The first of the five senses to go with age is smell. ? of women sleep on the left side of the bed. Women get more migraines than men.