10 things we didn't know last week
12:00 UK time, Friday, 5 August 2011
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Spider-Man has died.
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2. Margaret Thatcher did not pioneer the Right to Buy scheme for social housing.
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3. Almost as many people get married on a Thursday as on a Sunday.
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4. A web address can cost nearly £1 million.
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5. Suicide bombers are considered a suitable subject for Afghan satire.
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6. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cannot bend frying pans with his bare hands.
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7. A hole in the ground can qualify as a private members club.
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8. It was illegal to sign a football player on a Sunday in the 1950s.
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9. Local councils in England own 40 hotels and around 20 cinemas.
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10. There are poisonous rats.
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