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10 things we didn't know last week

17:41 UK time, Friday, 13 June 2008

10shoes.jpgSnippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Sir Jonathan Miller's main recreational activity, according to Who's Who, is deep sleep.
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2. Not paying attention as a juror is not an offence in Australia.

3. Gordon Brown's favourite song is Keep Right On To The End Of The Road, written in 1919 by fellow Scot Sir Harry Lauder.

4. A petaflop is a measurement of computing speed equivalent to one thousand trillion calculations a second.

5. Rwanda has its own Archers radio soap - an everyday story of cassava-farming folk.

6. Komodo dragons don't kill their prey outright - instead their bacteria-laden saliva causes septicaemia.

7. Dolphin pods have no leader.

8. Pigs can suffer from mysophobia, a fear of dirt.

9. One in 10 people have a piercing other than on the earlobe.

10. Egyptian law says the age gap between spouses should not exceed 25 years.

Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Richard Jenkinson for this week's picture of "10 shoes belonging to uber-fans of the Magazine Monitor", and Ed of London for one thing.

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