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dboyd | 9 years ago

My favourite one that I use as a cliche from time-to-time is...

> The average European lifespan has more than doubled since Sir Walter Raleigh introduced tobacco to the continent.

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smsm42|9 years ago

This is a good one, also probably because by "lifespan" it means life expectancy at birth, as many "statistics" do, which has pretty much nothing to do with anything that happens to people after 15 or so.