10 things we may not have known before last week....

1. In Zimbabwe, millions of dollars are called mollars.

2. .The 9/11 conspiracy theorists in the US include the LIHOPs (the government Let It Happen On Purpose) and MIHOPs (the government Made It Happen On Purpose).

3. Sir Clive Sinclair doesn't use the internet.

4. Everton, Aston Villa and Fulham are among the football clubs that were created from Sunday schools.

5. The City of Glasgow Police is the oldest force in the world, 29 years older than the Metropolitan Police formed under Sir Robert Peel.

6. Nelson Mandela was still on the US terror watch list until this week.

7. An income of £13,400 is required to enjoy a minimum standard of living in the UK.

8. Gordon Brown's favourite Beatle song is All My Loving.

9. Malaria is increasing in the UK.

10. Quarter-finalists at Wimbledon get free tea at the tournament for life.

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10 things we may not have known before last week....

1. The only DVD rejected by the British Board of Film Classification last year was a boxset of Weeds (broadcast in the UK on Sky One), for promoting drug use - despite more than 1,000 pornographic films being passed.
2. A bespoke garment does not necessarily need to be handmade.

3. There are 14 towns called Springfield in the US.4. The England rugby team always includes a lawyer in the tour party.
5. John Lewis sold a Wii Fit game every five minutes in May.
6. Schools influence the smoking habits of young people.
7. Eating a big breakfast helps weight loss.

8. Bill Gates has not one, not two, but three computer screens at his office desk.
9. The British eat potatoes about 10 billion times a year and pasta 1.4 billion times.
10. Infants that use dummies are more likely to get ear infections.

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10 things we didn't know.... until last week!

1. About 86% of fathers attend the birth of their children.

2. There is more crime in Glasgow than New York.

3. Vitamins can be bad for you.

4. To help break the bubbly when a new ship is launched, P&O sometimes scores the bottle with a glass-cutter.

5. The brain makes some decisions 10 seconds before they become conscious thought.

6. About 42% of hay fever sufferers think they have a cold.

7. Smells can drift across the Channel.

8. Belly fat creates more fat.

9. Scientists can control the brains of flies.

10. Bowleggedness is called genuvarum.

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10 things we didn't know last week!

1. Ian Fleming never met the woman upon whom he based Miss Moneypenny.

2. Each year 40,000 people pay homage at the California garage where the founders of Hewlett Packard started out.

3. White people make up 90% of the UK's population.

4. Most popular musical instrument in schools? The violin.

5. Morgan Tsvangirai's surname is pronounced chang-girr-IGH.

6. Much of the time it takes to fully train as an RAF pilot is taken up with solo flights.

7. Fabio Capello rings his mother every day.

8. Rice was once considered so important in Japan that it was worshipped as a god.

9. 4.4m apples are thrown away daily in the UK.

10. Belugas are the only white whales.

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10 things we didn't know last week!

1. 23% of plastic bags used in the UK are from Tesco.
2. Someone is deported every eight minutes, according to the Home Office.
3. In 1752, the day after 2 September was 14 September.
4. Ugandan tribes recognise and deal with depression.
5. 70% of mental health inpatients are smokers.
6. For the first time in US history, more than one in every 100 American adults is behind bars.
7. There are 200-300 quakes in the UK every year.
8. Teenagers are having fewer babies.
9. Web browser Netscape Navigator once commanded 90% of internet traffic. Now it is 0.6%.
10. It is possible to donate half a liver.

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10 things we didn't know.... until last week!

1. The Scottish crossbill is the only bird unique to the UK.

2. Barack Obama attended a stag party in Wokingham.

3. Nicolas Sarkozy never had dinner at home in eight years, according to his ex-wife Cecilia.

4. Christopher Columbus introduced syphilis to Europe.

5. Carrots used to be purple.

6. Both men and women find long legs in the opposite sex attractive, but not too long.

7. Rodents used to weigh a tonne and have skulls half a metre long.

8. MPs can claim up to £250 a month without producing receipts.

9. There is no such thing as pure black.

10. Brazil has more people of African descent than any country outside of Africa.

Thanks to the BBC

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