Online calculator tells you how long your toilet paper will last

An online toilet roll calculator will tell you how long your stocks of the precious paper will last during coronavirus isolation. Howmuchtoiletpaper.com is a website created by two Londoners, student software developer Ben Sassoon and artist Sam Harris. If you use the Advanced Options section, you can really even more precise information, for example inputing the average number of wipes per trip, the number of sheets per wipe and more.

You'll never walk alone...but maybe you should

The football anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone was played on radio stations in 180 countries last week. The stations included Slovenia’s Val 202, which was ironic because the country’s government had just issued official coronavirus advice telling people they should walk alone if they go outside.

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Man says a dolphin seduced him

A man has admitted to having a sexual relationship with a bottlenose dolphin and insists she came on to him. Malcolm Brenner, 68, was in his 20s when he says he was “seduced” by the dolphin, called Dolly. He says: “At first I discouraged her, I wasn't interested. After some time I thought ’if this was a woman would I come up with these rationalisations and excuses’?”

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