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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:17 pm
The Baked Beans Long Course record for eating 8.4lb is 2min 47sec by Sonya Thomas.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:18 pm
In April in the House of Lords, Viscount Simon asked Baroness Verma whether smelly emissions from baked beans contribute to global warming.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:18 pm
One can of Heinz baked beans is sold in the UK every 17 seconds.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:18 pm
In the same year, Heinz launched the slogan Beanz Meanz Heinz, which was recently voted the top advertising slogan of all time.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:19 pm
Lemurs take their name from the Latin lemures meaning ghosts, because of their mysterious and mainly nocturnal lifestyles.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:20 pm
In 2004, the Indian Statistical Institute in New Delhi was closed after reports of visits from the ghost of a dead student.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:20 pm
The Royal Albert Hall in London is supposedly haunted by a 19th-century organ maker’s ghost.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:21 pm
A recent poll reported that 87 per cent of Chinese office workers believe in ghosts.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:21 pm
Swaziland Prime Minister Prince Bhemkimpi was reported in 1995 to have complained about ghosts terrorising his subjects the ghosts hadn’t invaded the royal household supposedly because they were afraid of the dogs.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:22 pm
A woman on the Isle of Wight complained of a ghost in 1995 that turned on lights and electrical equipment.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:22 pm
An energy company spokesman said it was the first time a high bill had been blamed on a ghost.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:22 pm
According to a report in 2011, 25 per cent of Britons say they have seen a ghost.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:23 pm
A study in 2004 reported that chimpanzees prefer their own music to pre-recorded tracks.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:23 pm
In 2006, an RSPCA rescue centre in Somerset reported that stressed dogs are calmed by Mozart and Beethoven but not by dance music.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:24 pm
In 1996, the Singapore prime minister declared that clean public toilets and appreciation of music were the two markers of a gracious society.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:24 pm
According to a survey of music-buying in the UK, the music gets faster the further north you go.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:25 pm
The oldest musical instrument is thought to be a 35,000-year-old flute made from a vulture bone.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:25 pm
The current world record for the mile is held by Hicham El Guerrouj (Morocco) at 3min 43.13sec. 2. The word mile came from the Latin mille passuum, meaning 1,000 paces.

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:25 pm
The Roman army, marching through uncharted territory, used to place a stick in the ground every 1,000 paces (where each pace was two steps).

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Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:26 pm
This led to different mille passuum lengths, according to how tired the soldiers were, but the average is estimated to have been 1,617 yards.
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