10 things we didn't know last week
17:36 UK time, Friday, 23 March 2007
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. The are 30,000 wild parakeets in London.
2. Alan Sugar is a big fan of Masterchef.
3. It's possible to map a 248-dimensional structure.
4. Harvesting rhubarb in candlelight helps preserve its flavour.
5. The Quakers invented the modern protest campaign - in calling for an end to the slave trade – deploying petitions, consumer boycotts, images, a logo and a slogan.
6. The Legal limit for flying a plane is 20mg of alcohol.
7. Martina Navratilova has spent four years secretly working as an artist.
8. NHS hospitals took more than £95m in car parking charges in 2004/2005.
9. Alcohol and tobacco are more "harmful" than cannabis, ecstasy and LSD according to a new ranking drawn up by the Lancet.
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10. Tony Blair isn't a bad comedy actor, judging by his performance on Comic Relief.
Sources: 2 – the Independent, 21 March.
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