10 things we didn't know last week
18:37 UK time, Friday, 5 October 2007
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Adults use maths skills 14 times daily on average and literacy skills 23 times a day.
2. The sabretooth tiger might have looked fearsome but had a bite only a third as strong as a modern-day lion.
3. The opening bars to the theme tune of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em spelt the title of the series in Morse code.
4. The founder of Which? magazine, Michael Young, also founded the Open University.
5. Robbie Williams has 600 pairs of shoes at his Los Angeles home.
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6. The children who sang on Pink Floyd's number one hit Another Brick in the Wall (Pt 2) couldn't appear in the video because they didn't hold Equity cards.
7. Jennifer Aniston has the most bankable face for a magazine cover according to research by Forbes magazine in the US.
8. To skim a stone 51 times it would need to be thrown at a speed of at least 80 kmh.
9. Sputnik is the Russian word for satellite.
10. Fifty-seven per cent of children don't know that haggis comes from Scotland.
5: Observer Sport Monthly; 7: Forbes Magazine.
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