10 things we didn't know last week
17:07 UK time, Friday, 13 August 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Pea plants can grow inside a human lung.
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2. In Switzerland you can be fined $1m for speeding.
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3. Seaside towns and the Isle of Man used to have postcard censorship committees.
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4. The penguin on Penguin books was named Frostie after one of the editors at the publishing house.
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5. Nationwide supermarket bans exist.
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6. Naturalist Charles Darwin left the Victorian equivalent of about £13m today, and Charles Dickens £7m when they died.
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7. Fishermen in Britain have a one in 20 chance of being killed on the job during the course of their working lives.
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8. The Qwerty keyboard layout isn't random - it's to keep commonly used letters apart.
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9. Some hardened sauna users can stand temperatures of up to 160C.
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10. Honeybees are cleverer at certain times of the day.
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