10 things we didn't know last week
15:20 UK time, Friday, 1 February 2013
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Mice enjoy being massaged.
2. Americans pronounce gifs as "jifs".
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3. Jane Austen was paid an advance of £110 for Pride and Prejudice.
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4. An adult is made up of around 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (7 octillion) atoms.
5. The House of Lords has a rifle range.
6. A storm is described as a "bomb" if pressure falls by 24mb in a 24-hour period.
7. Prince Charles did not use the London Underground between 1986 and 2013.
8. Owls have smart bones in their necks.
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9. Male birds become more attractive to females when they go grey.
10. Formica, the mainstay of 1950s kitchen furniture, was so called because it was developed as a replacement for mica - an insulating material for car engines.
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