10 things we didn't know last week
16:51 UK time, Friday, 22 August 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Misheard song lyrics are known as mondegreens.
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2. The Banana Splits theme tune is very similar to reggae classic Buffalo Soldier.
3. Clouds can be breast-shaped.
4. And thunderclouds are so menacingly dark because they are four to five miles (6.4 to 8km) thick.
5. A 72oz steak is about the size of a large telephone directory. And since 1960, 8,000 people have managed to eat one - plus all the trimmings - in under an hour.
6. DNA from 3,000-year-old skeletons can be matched to living descendents.
7. Jerry Springer, the American talkshow host, was born in a London Tube station during World War II.
8. Some chemotherapy drugs are made from yew tree clippings.
9. The Queen no longer sends telegrams to those turning 100.
10. The rock hyrax - a modestly proportioned rodent - is the closest living relative to the elephant.
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