10 things we didn't know last week
17:03 UK time, Friday, 4 June 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Ken Dodd sang the third biggest-selling single of the 1960s.
2. Labour - the childbirth version - can last 20 days.
3. Alcohol is 75% more affordable since 1980.
4. Half of all men aged in their 80s have normal testerone levels.
5. Cheques were used to pay for one of the UK's first internet pay walls, launched by the Times.
6. In 1830, the prime minister was paid the equivalent of more than half a million pounds.
7. Elisabeth Taylor was nicknamed "Twit Twaddle" by her ex-husband, Richard Burton.
8. There are 42 different editions of Trivial Pursuit.
9. The region with the highest proportion of home-grown vegetables is the South West.
10. It costs £2,830 to cull a badger.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Louise Dolling for this week's picture of 10 painted fingernails.
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