10 things we didn't know last week
15:58 UK time, Friday, 15 June 2012
1. Corn saplings have their own language.
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2. LinkedIn passwords sell for one dollar or less.
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3. Gorillas use baby talk.
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4. It takes six and a quarter hours to read The Great Gatsby aloud.
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5. You need to walk at 4ft per second to successfully negotiate a pelican crossing.
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6. Irn Bru is the toughest stain to shift.
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7. A cabbage costs $28 in northern Canada.
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8. A doctor on Captain Scott's polar expeditions concluded that penguins were sexually depraved.
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9. More new magazines were launched than closed in the US last year.
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10. Roy Hodgson is in the acknowledgments of Sebastian Faulks's novel A Week in December.
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