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.
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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.
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7. Customers using cash machines of the Vatican bank are offered Latin as the preferred language.
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8. The Facebook logo is blue because founder Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colour blind.
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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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