10 things we didn't know last week
16:15 UK time, Friday, 27 January 2012
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. The English eat more haggis than the Scots.
2. The Dead Sea is only two-thirds the size it was in the 1930s.
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3. Mice sing.
4. Of 163,000 space rocks owned by Nasa, 517 are missing.
5. The world's most competitive espresso market is the UK.
6. Dinosaurs were good mothers.
7. Welsh doctors once used the skin of puppies as a dermatological treatment.
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8. King Charles II served his banquet guests 145 dishes during a single first course.
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9. A Lego man is capable of space flight.
10. Elephants can wear contact lenses.
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