In The Workshop

Some handy links for the DIY'er

USA / Canada

Australia / New Zealand

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.

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).

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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