10 things we didn't know last week
12:51 UK time, Friday, 11 January 2013
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. It's easier to pick wet things up with wrinkled fingers - suggesting an evolutionary reason for getting "prune fingers" in the bath.
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2. An average passenger travelling on Western-built jetliners would have to take no fewer than 5.3m flights before being involved in an accident.
3. Every child under 10 in North Korea gets sweets for Kim Jong-un's birthday
4. One in 10 people have dropped their phone down a toilet at some point.
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5. The inhabitants of the Greek island of Ikaria live on average 10 years longer than people in the rest of western Europe.
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6. Air passengers' behaviour is subject to the laws of the country the plane is registered in, not the country the airline is based in.
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7. It's illegal to enter a mannequin as a candidate in a British election. Probably.
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8. There are languages that are entirely whistled.
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9. The first journey on London's Tube in 1862 took two-and-a-half hours to cover the 18-minute route.
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10. The US government could theoretically produce a $1tn coin to pay off its debts.
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