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What We Learned: Google and Googol, #Scotriots and the 119-year-old bike

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Five things we learned in the last seven days.

Scotland’s oldest ghostbuster offered vampire blood for sale

He’s seen some pretty strange sights, but even Scotland’s oldest ghostbuster Tom Robertson was shocked when he saw this scam.

A hoax posted on Tom Robertson’s website claimed to advertise the chance to become a vampire.

The online message, from “Jerome”, states that he and his friend became vampires after consuming blood ordered online and encourages anyone who wishes to be like them and who wants “wealth, health and longevity” to get in touch.

Read the full story here: www.sundaypost.com/news-views/scotland/scotland-s-oldest-ghostbuster-offered-vampire-blood-for-sale-1.865739 Google could have been Googol

We revealed the secrets behind the world’s most recognisable company names and some of them were pretty incredible.

Imagine if google.com was googol.com. It started out as an accidental misspelling of the word and was settled upon because google.com was unregistered.

Read about the strange and surprising history surrounding some of the world’s most famous companies and brands. The bike that still works after 119 years

Despite being made in 1896, Douglas Seale’s bicycle is in perfect working order.

The bike’s owner is 90 and travels up to 50 miles each day on the Victorian bike.

Watch our video of 90-year-old Doug cycling on the 119-year-old bike! Sex offenders more likely to be re-housed in the north of England

We revealed that the regions with the most sex offenders in England and Wales relative to their population are all in the north of England, with some housing more than DOUBLE the number present in other areas.

The biggest density of sex offenders is in the north east.

Read about the shocking statistics revealed in the article. The Broons got involved in the #Scotriots

Grannies were seething in Inverkeithing…There was total Bedlam in Old Meldrum…and there was civil unrest in Glasgow Southwest.

Well, sort of.

If you were on twitter on friday afternoon, the hashtag #scotriots would have you believe that the nation was in meltdown.

Thankfully it was only a hilarious trend started by Wings Over Scotland. Some of the responses were first class.

Read our story about the #Scotriots and find out what The Broons had to say about it.