10 things we didn't know last week
15:12 UK time, Friday, 16 April 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. There are leeches that like living in your nose.
2. British servicemen and women have had their own brand of tea since 1921.
3. Israeli lottery winners often wear masks to conceal their identity while accepting the prize.
4. The Turin Shroud is woven in a herringbone pattern.
5. Doctor Who regenerations were modelled on bad LSD trips.
6. Banknotes were first widely circulated in the Song Dynasty in 10th Century China.
7. In Cuba, barber shops and beauty salons are run by the state.
8. Motorists use excuses as imaginative as UFOs and "bad weather" to try and get out of parking fines.
9. Former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler used to pause Top of the Pops and stare at Johnny Marr's hands.
10. Sir Cliff Richard split up with his first serious girlfriend by letter.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Anita Bekker for this week's picture of 10 birds.
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