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10 things we didn't know last week

14:04 UK time, Friday, 23 December 2011

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Pet crocodiles in the UK have to be micro chipped.
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2. Kim Jong-il was known by 50 names, including Dear Leader, Supreme Leader, Our Father, The General, Generalissimo.

3. There is a 100-year-old Christmas cake.

4. The average webpage has grown 33% in size in the last year, up from 726 kilobytes in 2010 to about 965 kilobytes in 2011.
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5. This year's top10 most watched YouTube clips have racked up more than 285 million hits worldwide since being posted onto the internet.
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6. The world record for Christmas lights covering a property is 331,038 lights.

7. Sleeping on left side of the bed makes you more cheerful and positive.

8. Britain's cheapest house this year sold for £16,000.

9. In Scotland you can eat deep fried butter.

10. The first celebrity to enter the US chart of the most popular search terms this year across all search engines is Justin Bieber at 92.

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