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Another great collection of New Scientist columns with readers asking questions and other readers answering them. Lots of interesting trivia; two different answers given for why we westerners tend to eat a sweet course at the end of the meal (not totally sure I believe either of them); the title question is answered somewhere in the middle; at the very end, a question about how Big Ben is kept on time is answered by someone who had actually had the job of keeping it on time. Entertaining stuff.

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tree_and_leaf
Jan. 21st, 2012 05:01 pm (UTC)
two different answers given for why we westerners tend to eat a sweet course at the end of the meal

Who answered? It doesn't strike me as something I'd ask New Scientist about - more of a historical question...
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