10 things we didn't know last week
19:00 UK time, Friday, 23 May 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. "Nice" originally meant foolish or silly.
2. More rural homes have broadband than urban dwellings.
3. 27% of people have opened a bottle with their teeth.
4. Britain has the fifth largest Jewish population in the world.
5. Brain chemical oxytocin makes us trust strangers with money.
6. Women drivers are three times more likely than men to suffer whiplash injuries if their car is hit from behind.
7. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is deaf in one ear.
8. Skunks can be de-scented to make better pets.
9. You can lessen jet lag by not eating.
10. The "$100 laptop" now costs $75.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Sarah Metcalfe of Sheffield for this week's picture of 10-segmented lampshade. "This is a lamp which was a present from my brothers. It always gets a lot of comments with people thinking it's an umbrella or modern art."
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