10 things we didn't know last week
16:41 UK time, Friday, 25 June 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. More than 5,000 so-called mosquito alarms, which emit a sound to disperse teenage groups, are in operation in the UK.
2. Human hair is used as a food additive.
3. Italy's footballers were pelted with rotten fruit when they arrived back in the country after an early exit from the 1966 World Cup.
4. Scotland has the highest proportion of cocaine users in the world.
5. Tennis matches can last three days.
6. There are 820 government websites.
7. More than eight million visits were made to news websites every minute, on the night Barack Obama won the US presidential election. On the first day of the World Cup, there were 12m visits per minute.
8. General Stanley McChrystal only eats one square meal a day.
9. Nottingham Forest players got drunk the night before winning the League Cup final in 1979.
10. There are 6,000 islands in Greece, but only 227 are inhabited.
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