10 things we didn't know last week
16:44 UK time, Friday, 12 September 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Baseball was played in Surrey in 1755.
2. There are algae that can bend light.
3. Women are more prone to nightmares.
4. The British Antarctic Survey needs a full-time plumber.
5. While everything else is getting more expensive, broccoli is getting cheaper.
6. Radio adverts can be banned for being too quick.
7. Zoroastrians were the first religious adherents to incorporate the end of the world into their beliefs.
8. Portraits of famous people often look like the painter instead.
9. When the police fire a baton round, they aim for the belt buckle.
10. Goats are a cost effective way of clearing waste ground.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Margaret Emerson, of Coventry, for her picture of 10 dormer windows.
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