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In the year 2008-09, 84.4 per cent of the programmes shown on BBC3 were repeats.
The Telegraph, 28th April 2010

The soft drink Fanta was invented in Nazi Germany, to replace Coca-Cola after Pearl Harbor ended its import to the country.
Slate, 5th August 2010

In Britain, only 18 teachers have been struck off for incompetence in the past 40 years.
Panorama, 5th July 2010

Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the only doubly landlocked countries in the world (that is, landlocked countries totally surrounded by other landlocked countries).
Wikipedia

From 1989 to 2006, deaths from breast cancer fell by 30 per cent in Britain, more than in any other major European country.
World Health Organisation

47m Americans have a criminal record.
National Post, 31st July 2010

Scotland and Wales together now account for more than a quarter of all Labour MPs.
The Times, 9th May 2010

Ron Wayne was one of

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