10 things we didn't know last week
16:37 UK time, Friday, 24 September 2010
1. Blowflies can help solve murders.
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2. New Zealand's birds suffer from body odour.
3. Would-be hobbits should be no more than 158cm (5ft 2ins) tall if male or 153cm (5ft) if female.
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4. Strong winds could have parted the Red Sea.
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5. Children's waistlines have expanded by an average of 12.5cm (4.9ins) since the 1970s.
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6. Ed Miliband can solve a Rubik's Cube in one minute 20 seconds.
7. Customers using cash machines of the Vatican bank are offered Latin as the preferred language.
8. The Facebook logo is blue because founder Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colour blind.
9. Northern Ireland has the lowest proportion of out gay, lesbian and bisexual people in the UK.
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10. Denim jeans come from Italy.
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