10 things we didn't know last week
16:20 UK time, Friday, 26 February 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. The average life of a web page these days is apparently somewhere between 44 and 77 days.
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2. A "beryl" is a type of precious mineral.
3. A dentist in San Francisco is named Les Plack.
4. A piconewton is a millionth of the force that a grain of salt exerts when resting on a tabletop.
5. There are people in the UK called Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still.
6. Computer game and movie character Lara Croft was created in Derby.
7. Elephants growl.
8. Johnny Cash's Guess Things Happen That Way was the 10 billionth track to be sold on iTunes.
9. The types of lasers that remove tattoos can also be used to clean up works of art.
10. Recent snow has left the UK's roads riddled with 1.6 million new potholes.
Seen 10 things? to use next week. Thanks to Mike Wilson from East Yorkshire for this picture of 10 books.
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