Fact For The Day

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Fact of the day: oldest recorded geckos found

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Brilliant!

Michael Phelps consumed 10,000 calories a day while training for the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

For breakfast, he had three fried egg sandwiches, with cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, fried onions and mayonnaise, followed by three chocolate-chip pancakes. That was not all, after sandwiches and pancakes, it was time for a five-egg omelette, three sugar-coated slices of French toast, a bowl of grits, and two cups of coffee to wash down everything.

However, on the way to training if he felt like having anything more he would stop and have a go.

For lunch, he would have half-kilogram of pasta, two large ham and cheese sandwiches on white bread smothered with mayonnaise, and another set of energy drinks.

For dinner, he had a pound of pasta with carbonara sauce, a large pizza, and energy drinks.

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training AND the munchies.

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These amateurs!

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Egg.Bound.

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I had a sandwich like that in Essaouira once

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Think how well he could have done if he’d eaten healthily

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I just learned today that Tony Allen played on La Ritournelle.

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I’m pretty much the same with a hangover.

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The whole album.

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After an evening with Jacques Herrer, I resemble a cross of Phelps, a whirling dervish and The Tasmanian Devil. All in a the kitchen at once!

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It would be remiss of me not to give this a rewind here

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I was just waiting for the ā€˜fish cake and rice’ variant to come in

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Just when I thought I couldn’t love it anymore….

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Jennifer Warnes sang backing vocals for Arthur Russell, including on Wild Combination

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Velcro was invented when George de Mestral was walking his hairy sheepdog through a field of burr-covered plants. It’s notoriously difficult to remove burrs from an animal’s hair, which means the animal is going to carry seeds a far distance, allowing the plant to spread more successfully. De Mestral took out a magnifying glass and saw very tiny hooks that clung to the dog’s hair. Then he made the distant connection: The burr’s mechanism, designed by nature to spread seeds, could be used to make a clothing fastener.

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I’m just off to salt my coffee

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