10 things we didn't know last week
11:12 UK time, Friday, 31 December 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Cavemen had a taste for vegetables.
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2. About 80,000 people die each year from smoking.
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3. An ironing board is used to replicate the sound of animal pens being opened and closed in The Archers.
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4. Councils held contests for best-decorated air raid shelters in Christmas 1940.
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5. St Paul's Cathedral was actually hit in the Blitz.
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6. The Women's Institute permits men to take on administrative roles.
7. Beavers lead double-lives.
8. Nearly one in five people will live to see their 100th birthday.
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9. Quidditch is real.
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10. When Morecambe and Wise were young, it was Ernie Wise who was the child star.
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