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10 things we didn't know last week

17:16 UK time, Friday, 27 March 2009

10pots_203jpg.jpgSnippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Tits are also known as bumbarrels.
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2. The Daily Sport website is banned in the House of Commons.
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3. Teenagers don't like pink light.
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4. Crabs feel pain.
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5. Britons spend six months of their lives queueing.
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6. A broken heart is known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and it can be cured.
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7. Britney Spears's family comes from Tottenham in north London.
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8. People like their tea to have a temperature of 56-60C.
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9. Hyenas have the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom.
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10. Charles Darwin loved eating vegetables.
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Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Basil Long, and to Jon Dalladay for this week's picture of 10 Victorian rhubarb forcers in the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.

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