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10 things we didn't know last week

1. One in five UK women will not have children, many by choice.
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2. Gooseberries have been in England since at least 1275, when the king shipped over plants from France to grow at the Tower of London.
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3. International athletes coming to London for the 1948 Olympics had to bring their own towels.
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4. And half the pigeons brought to the stadium to be released for the opening ceremony died in the heat.
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5. A man thought to be Tokyo's oldest had, in fact, been dead for 30 years.
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6. Dogs mimic their owners.
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7. And one in three are obese.
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8. Snooker world championships used to last a year.
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9. One in 36 pound coins is fake.
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10. The world's most ancient living creatures are a breed of shrimp which live in south-west Scotland.
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All You Need Is Love: History of Popular Music by Tony Palmer

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All You Need Is Love: History of Popular Music by Tony Palmer

(LWT Series - 77/02/12 - 77/06/04)

Produced and directed by Tony Palmer

Tony Palmer ( 1941 ) is a British film director and writer. He Worked For More Than 60 films and at an early age Worked with in the 1960s with artists like the Beatles , Cream , Jimi Hendrix or Frank Zappa together. Later he directed or portraits Maria Callas , from Margot Fonteyn , John Osborne , Igor Stravinsky , Richard Wagner , Yehudi Menuhin , Benjamin Britten and Ralph Vaughan Williams . Even in the theater and the opera he directed HAS. He HAS SEVERAL published books.