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January 17, 2011

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10 things we didn't know week before last week BBC

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Bald people grow the wrong type of hair, that is so fine we can't see it.
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2. Cockpits have coffee cup holders.
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3. Unauthorised use of a red cross breaks the Geneva Convention.
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4. Women's tears reduce sexual desire in men.
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5. Door number 243 is the unluckiest address in the UK.
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6. Three people claim to have started the story about Bob Holness playing the sax on Baker Street.
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7. Ants retire from chewing leaves.
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8. It used to be someone's job to knock on people's windows with a pole to wake them up.
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9. And ancient Greeks used water devices for the same purpose.
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10. Male and female butterflies take it in turns to make sexual advances.
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10 things we didn't know last week BBC

10 things we didn't know last week

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Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. The father of Michael Palin, who brought the stammer to national attention in the film, A Fish Called Wanda, had one himself.
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2. Mark Twain opened Kensal Rise library in north London.
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3. Birds binge drink.
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4. There are 18 super-arbitrators of the English language version of Wikipedia.
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5. Aristotle was known as the human Wikipedia.
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6. Tinie Tempah's real name is Patrick.
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7. An elephant can be hired for £20 in New Delhi .
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8. The fall of the Roman Empire can be detected in tree growth rings.
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9. People who are tone deaf can hear music perfectly well.
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10. Saint Wilgefortis was a woman who grew a beard to resist offers of marriage.
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