10 things we didn't know last week
13:26 UK time, Friday, 16 November 2007
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Superstitious people in rural India sometimes organise weddings to animals in the hope of warding off curses.
2. Janet and John were named Alice and Jerry in the United States.
3. Until the late 1990s, the RAF's nuclear bombs could be activated using a bicycle lock key.
4. Qwerty is a regular on lists of most-popular passwords.
5. Residents of Middlesbrough are 25% more likely to suffer from heart disease than the UK average.
6. There is an average of 90 suicides a day in Japan.
7. Landfill rubbish sites in the UK cover in total an area of 109sq miles.
8. Twelve per cent of people with no religion pray sometimes.
9. Cats can be police constables.
10. The next generation of chip will pack more than four hundred million transistors into an area the size of a postage stamp.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Alan Highley for this week's picture of 10 letters.
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