10 things we didn't know last week
17:25 UK time, Friday, 29 May 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Beer mat collectors are called tegestologists.
2. A train that arrives 10 minutes late can still be officially "on time".
3. The word "Laodicean" means to be indifferent in matters of politics or religion.
4. Sounds have shapes.
5. People can overdose on chewing gum.
6. Only one in 10 people with Tourette Syndrome swears.
7. Just two people know the recipe for Irn Bru.
8. Stabbing in the buttocks has its own verb in Roman dialect.
9. Places with slow or non-existent broadband are called "notspots".
10. The world's longest recorded marriage is 86 years.
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Thanks to Basil Long and Mark Grosvenor for sending us two things, and thanks to Anita Bekker for this week's picture of 10 postboxes near Akaroa, New Zealand.
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