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The luggage carousel

By That's life

Short ride for the bagCheck out the Venice luggage carousel.

So true that the airport carousel is like gambling with your luggage. If your lucky number comes up, you get your luggage hassle free at the end of your journey. If your number doesn’t appear, it’s just the beginning of your journey.

Help! It’s a floater

By Dung Beetles

Doug the dung beetle discovers the floater

Did you know?

The perfect stool is a floater and not a sinker.

Whether a stool floats or sinks depends on the individual’s diet and the telling sign of a healthy stool is one made from consuming a lot of fibre and water.  These poops will float.

Solar system social media

By IT and Computer Stuff

Facebook hits the solar systemStumbled upon the Worldometer website when researching how many people lived on planet earth for this cartoon.  Watching the number change before your very eyes is quite mesmerising, but I digress.  A few interesting stats presented on the site include:

  • the population currently alive represents roughly 6% of all people who have ever lived on planet Earth.
  • an estimated 106 billion people have been born since the birth of the homo sapiens
  • the world population is currently growing at a rate of around 1.10% per year (a decline since the 1960’s which peaked at 2%)