10 things we didn't know last week
17:20 UK time, Friday, 3 December 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Mercury can cause birds to seek same-sex relationships.
2. Penguin is a Welsh word.
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3. Coronation Street was going to be called Florizel Street.
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4. Coca has been chewed for 8,000 years.
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5. In the Arctic Circle you can take a mortgage out to buy a fur coat.
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6. The pavlova was invented in New Zealand.
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7. Temperatures in Qatar reach 50C in summer.
8. Italy and Luxembourg are Eurovision Song Contest stayaways.
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9. Mick Hucknall had sex with 3,000 women in three years, he says.
10. Driving a car with snow on the roof contravenes the Highway Code.
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