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10 things we didn't know last week

17:04 UK time, Friday, 10 October 2008

10_cars203.jpgSnippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Goats wear condoms.

2. Big Lebowski fanatics call themselves "achievers".

3. And the f-word is used 281 times in the film.

4. Sarah Palin is 10th cousin to Princess Diana.

5. The word "unbepissed" means "not being urinated on".

6. Contrary to myth, the suicide rate in New York in the month following the Wall Street Crash in 1929 was lower than normal.

7. The phrase "dead cat bounce" means a brief rally in the price of falling stock.

8. Scottish poet Robert Burns was Bob Dylan's muse.

9. The annual cost of forest loss is more than the amount being lost in the banking crisis.

10. Two New Testament books were left out of the modern Bible.

Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Natalie Johnson from Loughborough for this week's picture of 10 toy cars.

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