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Health LIVE LONGER: Sustained physical activity could add years to life, a study of more than 12,000 elderly WA men found. Researchers found 150 minutes of vigorous activity a week added two to three years to the lives of those men who stayed active for the duration of the 13-year study, HealthCanal.com reported. ‘FAT LETTERS’: Schools in 19 US states had started to conduct annual weigh-ins that tested for Body Mass Index, Medical Daily reported. Their measurements were then sent home to parents as reports, which noted whether or not the child was overweight. Kids had started calling the reports “fat letters”, Fox News reported.
Did You Know? ANXIETY, or excessive worrying, is the most common psychological problem in Australia and affects 14% of the population, according to the Bureau of Statistics.
CODES CRACKED: US and UK intelligence had cracked the encryption codes protecting the emails, banking and medical records of hundreds of millions of people, according to disclosures by fugitive leaker Edward Snowden. They suggested some net companies gave the agencies backdoor access to their security systems, BBC News reported.
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KYUSHIN Ryu jujitsu demo, Sandgate State School Carnivale, Sunday, September 8. ‘RACIST’ APP SCRAPPED: A website and app called Ghetto Tracker, designed to help people avoid the “bad” part of town, was removed after it was attacked as racist. Featuring a smiling white family on the home page, Ghetto Tracker purported to be a travel tool for wary tourists wanting to keep out of trouble, News Corp reported.
Business GROWTH UP: Australia reported betterthan-forecast growth for the April to June quarter, boosted by gains in consumer spending. GDP grew 2.6% in the quarter, from a year earlier. Compared with the previous quarter, growth was 0.6%. Most forecasts were for annual growth closer to 2.5%, BBC.co.uk reported. GOING CHEAP: Houses were more affordable than at any time in the past decade, Real Estate Institute of Australia research claimed. According to the research, housing affordability had improved in the past two years with the proportion of income to meet repayments now sitting at 28.7%, News Corp reported.
Did You Know? AT some point, genes from at least eight retroviruses became incorporated into human DNA. They now perform important functions in reproduction, yet are entirely alien to our genetic ancestry.
GAMBLING VIOLENCE: Researchers investigating links between gambling and family violence said they were shocked by the evidence. The Melbourne University study had found nearly half the family members of a problem gambler had experienced violence in the previous 12 months, ABC News reported.
BING BOOTED: Yahoo!7 had bucked a global alliance with Microsoft and Bing and struck an agreement with Google for search in Australia. That meant both search results and ads served would be powered by Google. In 2009 Microsoft and Yahoo! signed a 10-year deal whereby Bing would power Yahoo! Search, AdNews.com.au reported.
PACKER SWOOP: James Packer bought 9.4% of Zillow valued at $US298 million, becoming the second-biggest shareholder in the US real-estate website, after housing starts in the country rose to a five-year high. The company ran the largest US real-estate website with 61 million unique users in July.
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THE 2014 Mercedes S-Class offers a $350 option that wafts perfume through the car. There are four scents: Nightlife, Sports, Downtown and Fireside. The system atomises the perfume and distributes it throughout the passenger area.
Source: QI television show
THE antioxidant concentration in hot cocoa was almost twice as strong as red wine, two to three times stronger than green tea and four to five times stronger than black tea, a study at Cornell University determined.
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Q: Via lactea is the classical Latin name for which celestial body?
Q: Which is the only number in English with its letters in alphabetical order? Q: Is Helsinki the capital city of Norway, Sweden or Finland? A: Finland
A: The Milky Way
A: Yazz
Q: What is the highest Australian mountain?
Q: What did baseballer Babe Ruth keep under his hat to stay cool? A: A cabbage leaf
Q: Which singer had a hit with the 1988 dance track The Only Way is Up?
A: Forty
Fun Fact:
THE sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 160km away.
A: Mawson Peak, on Heard Island, stands 2750m
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