Useless InformationDid you know that crabs wee through their eyes? That maidenhair moss is so called because Anglo-saxons thought it looked like pubes? That Albanians have 17 different words for moustache? Astound us with your utterly useless and obscure knowledge.
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chthonic, Thu 17 Mar 2005, 14:48)
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...The bubonic plague is reckoned to have killed about 30 million people in medieval Europe. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that AIDS deaths and the loss of future population from the deaths of women of child-bearing age means that by 2010, sub-Saharan Africa will have 71 million fewer people than it would otherwise.
39.4 million people had HIV/AIDS by 2004 - of these 3.4 million died last year.
Meanwhile, the Catholic church and various African political leaders continue to insist that condoms should not be used, ensuring the disease spreads further.
Meanwhile, ignorant bigots in pubs nationwide insist that the AIDS epidemic is entirely down to "poofters", and that anyone who catches it has "only got themselves to blame".
Last year 510,000 children died of AIDS - that's 1,397 dead children a day. This year the figure will be higher.
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TV's Nosemonkey, Fri 18 Mar 2005, 11:41,
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