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I just Dr Bill Frankland on the one show, and thought I would share with you this remarkable man who served in WW2, worked with Fleming and has been a world leading expert on allergies (we have him to thank for the pollen count!).

Managed to find one article on him from 2010

People like this man make me proud to be British!

Hey Reddit, so what is your number?

When I was born, I was the: 4,692,843,360th person alive on Earth 79,424,292,556th person to have lived since history began

I live in an apartment building with post boxes on the outside of the building. Recently some new people moved in and kept leaving the post that wasn't for them on the windowsill, the postmen (people) here don't collect post, you simply write "return to sender" and place in a postbox - we have one on the other side of the road, so it's really not difficult.

It started really annoying me the post was building up, so I have started putting it back in peoples post boxes, every day I see it back on the window and place it back in the boxes, being going on for over a week now.

So anyone else had such a stupid thing annoy them, or any other silly neighbour stories?

Ebay related question here....

2 weeks ago I brought and instantly paid for an item under the "buy now" option. I use paypal so paid straight away for the item. When it didn't arrive in the post I checked and saw it was not marked as dispatched, and the estimated delivery date had passed.

So I emailed the seller, and asked where my item was, waited 2 days heard nothing emailed again. That was on Saturday, this morning I got an email from the seller through Paypal saying... "Sorry, but I seem to have duplicate listed this in error and I don't have it. Here is a full refund."

I have looked all over the help center to try and find advice if this is acceptable to list an item that you don'

As the title says, first date with a guy tonight, we were supposed to go out at the weekend but he had to reschedule. Now I'm getting a migraine and can't work out whether to risk it or not.

So in general, how bad is it to cancel a first date?

Its Monday (3rd Jan), and someone says to you (via text) I'm not working next weekend, lets meet up on Saturday - would you think that was the 8th or 15th?