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Some handy links for the DIY'er
USA / Canada
Australia / New Zealand

www.liberon.com.au www.taubmans.com.au www.taubmans.com.au www.wattyl.com.au www.floodaustralia.net www.garrettwade.com www.festool.com.au www.timbermate.com.au

Dept of Building and Housing NZ

Great Britian

British Woodworking Federation www.woodworking.co.uk

Trivia To Contemplate
  • With 382,650 babies being born each day and 144,902 people dying daily, the world population increases about 237,748 people a day.
  • The most popular form of hair removal among women is shaving. According to the Gillette company, 70 percent of women who remove hair do so by shaving.
  • Dolphins and porpoises differ in that dolphins are larger and more streamlined, and often have much larger dorsal fins. Porpoises are shorter, stockier, and have either triangular dorsal fins (without a curve) or as in the case of the finless porpoise, no dorsal at all.
  • The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid.
  • Strangeray Springs cattle station in South Australia is the largest ranch in the world. Its area measures 30,029 square kilometres – only slightly smaller than the European country of Belgium.
  • Always give 3 weeks notice when you quit. It gives you extra time to screw around.
  • The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
  • Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
  • Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it will digest itself.
  • TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
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