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Real life Manchester Police detectice Jerome Caminada was an inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes.
 
If you’d invested £1,000 in Delta Air Lines shares eight years ago, you’d have £49 today.
If you’d invested £1,000 in AIG shares seven years ago, you’d have £33 today.
If you’d invested £1,000 in Lehman Brothers shares eleven years ago, you’d have nothing today.
If you’d invested £1,000 in Northern Rock shares nine years ago, you’d also have nothing today.

But if you’d spent £1,000 on beer at Tesco a year ago, drunk it all, and then taken the aluminium cans to the scrapyard, you’d have got back £214.

Based on that, the best current investment strategy appears to be drinking heavily and recycling.

A recent study found that the average person walks around 900 miles a year.
Another study found that we drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year.

That means, on average, we get about 41 miles to the gallon.

Makes you proud to be a piss-head.
 
Fanta originated in Germany as a Coca-Cola alternative in 1940 due to the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany which affected the availability of Coca-Cola ingredients. Fanta soon dominated the German market with three million cases sold in 1943. The current formulation of Fanta, with orange flavour, was developed in Italy in 1955
The name was derived from the German word for imagination, Fantasie
 
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