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THE GLOBAL PEACE INDEX has listed NZ as the third most peaceful country (after Iceland and Denmark) . Australia comes in at sixteenth. Afghanistan, Somalia and Syria are the bottom three.

ENGLAND WON the World Football Cup by defeating Germany 4 – 2 on July 30th 1966

A SMILE is a curve which sets everything straight.

TESTING BY CONSUMER showed that the saving in fitting a $6.50 CFL light bulb paid for itself in four months – and the bulb lasts several times as long a standard bulb.

THE MILKY WAY has a circumference of 250,000 – 300,000 light years and contains 200 – 400 billion stars.

EVERYTHING IS FUNNY, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

AFTER SEVEN ATTEMPTS, on July 31st 1964 NASA eventually managed to land its first functioning camera equipped spacecraft on the moon.

THE SUN’S RADIUS is 700,000 kms. It is 150 million kms from earth and burns through matter at a rate of the equivalent of a million elephants a second.

NOTHING IS TOO MUCH trouble if the result is what was wanted.

LORD JUSTICE DENNING granted England’s first horse racing trainer’s licence to a women on July 28th 1966. 72 year old Mrs Florence Nagle had been trying unsuccessfully for a licence for 20 years.

INTOXICATION: the euphoria in getting a tax refund which lasts until you realise that it was your money in the first place

THE WORLD’S FIRST test tube baby was born in Oldham Hospital England on July 26th 1978

WRITER AND CONSERVATIVE PARTY Deputy Chairman Jeffery Archer won a record million dollars libel damages against the Star newspaper who published that he paid for sex with prostitute Monica Coghlan.

THE LONDON TIMES carried a full page advertisement on July 24th 1967 advocating the legalising of Marijuana signed , along with many others, by the four Beatles

ITALY HAS SIMILAR land area and climate to New Zealand and yet produces twenty four times more fruit.

JIGME SINGYE WANGCHUK was crowned King of Bhutan on July 24th 1973

THE DOPELER EFFECT: the tendency for stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly

IN 1899 CHARLES DUELL, then head of the U.S. patent Office, resigned declaring that ‘ everything that can be invented has been invented’.