10 things we didn't know last week
17:39 UK time, Friday, 28 September 2012
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Mankinis are banned in Newquay, Cornwall.
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2. Korean eunuchs live 19 years longer than uncastrated men from the same social class.
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3. One in every 10 people uses the same Pin number - 1234.
4. An open window on a plane would not suck everything out as you see in movies - mostly passengers inside would feel short of breath and start to pass out.
5. The only fully trained and certified member of the Police Department in the US town of Vaughn, New Mexico, is a dog called Nikka.
6. Just 1% of meteorites are lunar in origin.
7. Bexhill, Sussex, has more centenarians per head of population than anywhere else in the UK.
8. An ancient Buddha statue recovered by the Nazis was carved from a meteorite.
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9.Economics undergraduates have more sexual partners on average than students of any other subject.
10. Flying backwards is energy-efficient for birds.
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