10 things we didn't know last week
17:40 UK time, Friday, 3 October 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. JK Rowling makes £5 every second.
2. There are two £1m banknotes still in existence. Nine were made after World War II.
3. Television presenter and artist Tony Hart served in the Gurkhas.
4. Paul Newman was prevented from flying on an ill-fated World War II mission by his pilot's ear infection. Everyone on his detail was killed.
5. Egham receives more spam than any other place in the UK.
6. The chief designer at Waterford Crystal was not Irish, but Czech.
7. Human HIV infections could have started as early as the 19th Century.
8. The 1950s was not a golden age for train travel.
9. Bradford and Bingley has registered the raising of the bowler hat as a trademark.
10. The man who designed the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, Eero Saarinen, also designed the Sixties classic, the Tulip chair.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Rachael Walker for this week's picture of 10 sweetcorn cobs, all from the same plant.
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