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Interesting Place - The UK



In the UK a burglary takes place every 43 seconds.

(According to the Home Office’s British Crime Survey (BCS), there were 745,000 burglaries committed in 2010/11, and one in 40 households was the target of a break-in or attempted break-in in 2010.)

Interesting Fact - Memory



Scientists at Columbia University, say that using internet search engines and databases to find information is making people lose their memory.

(They're calling it (a bit unfairly) the Google effect, which they say shows people develop poor recall of knowledge if they know where answers to questions are easily found. So, now I know what to blame. Now what was I saying?)

Interesting Place - England



According to a report from the Committee on Climate Change, around 12,000-16,000 homes in England are still built on floodplains each year.

(I wonder what part of flood + plain, they don't understand.)