Victoria Glendinning

Home and away

Rats cannot be sick, says Bill Bryson. Not many people know that. Rats can have sex 20 times a day.

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  • At Home: A Short History of Private Life

    Bill Bryson

    Doubleday, pp. 544

Rats cannot be sick, says Bill Bryson. Not many people know that. Rats can have sex 20 times a day. Further down the same page, we read that they also sleep 20 hours a day. Do the sums. Rats must fornicate five times an hour in their waking period, as well as eating rubbish and not being sick.

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