Heads-UP #5: From head Banging to Crocodile Tears

It’s that time again ladies and gentlemen. Sit back, relax, and look at the most interesting facts from the RE-UP team learnt over week. Welcome to Heads-UP…

• I learnt I became an uncle. – Bill

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• I learnt that millennials are not as phone call phobic as first thought, even with telemarketers – Andrea

• The phrase to ‘shed crocodile tears’ exists in 45 European languages alongside Arabic, Swahili, Persian, Indian languages, Chinese and Mongolian. – Krish

• If you Google ‘Zerg Rush’ Google will eat up the search results. – Tina

• Vintage shops and markets are not 100% vintage. Blame fashion. With big demand for vintage clothes, stall holders and shop managers are not capable of sourcing good unique pieces all the time – so they have to compensate a few items with apparel that emulates a vintage feel (aka poorly produced). – Efrem

• I learnt that banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour. Woah! – Laura

• Russia didn’t consider beer to be alcohol until 2011. It was previously classified as a soft drink. – Marco

• I learnt the word ‘Keraunophilia’ – “a special fondness for thunderstorms” – Laurent