10 things we didn't know last week
18:56 UK time, Friday, 4 May 2007
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Asda's buttock-slap is one of the few gestures to have been trademarked.
2. The goat who became an internet phenomenon after "marrying" a Sudanese man was named Rose.
3. New York may be "the city that never sleeps", but its pedestrians only rank eighth in a global study of walking pace.
4. Pandas in captivity don't need "Viagra, panda porn videos, or other previously tried artificial stimulants" to contemplate a spot of rumpy-pumpy after all.
5. Mirror tycoon Robert Maxwell ate grapes by lowering a bunch into his mouth, stripping the fruit and taking it out leaving only the stalks.
6. Apes communicate with gestures that have different meanings depending on the context - a chimpanzee with an extended arm and open hand may be begging for food, asking a female chimp for sex or reconciling with a male after a fight.
7. Men bitten by the Brazilian wandering spider can experience long and painful erections - a condition known as priapism.
8. Maggots can treat MRSA.
9. Blushing can be treated by cutting the nerve that creates the red flush in the face, neck or upper chest.
10. Danny deVito - yes the actor - has created his own brand of Limon cello, the lemony Italian liqueur.
Source, where item not linked: 3: Metro, 1 May.
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