10 things we didn't know last week
15:29 UK time, Friday, 17 October 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Pets don't like divorces.
2. More than one in four commuters has bacteria from faeces on their hands.
3. The Queen has a gold Blue Peter badge.
4. Val Singleton not only had a fling with Peter Purves, but fancied John Noakes.
5. Prince Charles could have had a cameo in Doctor Who.
6. Men are most romantic aged 53.
7. The world's longest insect is 56cm long.
8. Sugar makes you a nicer person. But artificial sweetener does not have the same effect.
9. A spurtle is a spatula-like tool traditionally used to stir porridge.
10. The brains of obese people find eating less rewarding than brains belonging to other people.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Louise Simpson for this week's picture of 10 plant pots in Hoge Veluwe National Park in the Netherlands.
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