10 things we didn't know last week
16:43 UK time, Friday, 24 April 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Five trees make an orchard.
2. Matthew Parris once ran the London Marathon in 2hrs 32m, the fastest by an MP.
3. Paper can be made from wombat excrement.
4. Robin Hood had no Maid Marian in the early days.
5. British consumption of poultry increased 25-fold between 1950 and 2000.
6. Video Killed the Radio Star was inspired by a JG Ballard short story.
7. Wine varies in taste from day to day.
8. French women are the lightest in the EU. British women are the heaviest.
9. The Sun is dimmest it has been for a century .
10. There's a swear word in The Beatles' Hey Jude.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Simon Dale for this week's picture of 10 seagulls in Eastbourne.
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