10 things we didn't know last week

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1.Urban blackbirds grow up faster than their country cousins.
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2. Fidgeting is good for men's concentration but bad for women's concentration.
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3. For every person in the US bitten by a shark, 25 get bitten by New Yorkers.
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4. Urban fox numbers haven't risen in 30 years.
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5. Dame Maggie Smith has never watched an episode of Downton Abbey.
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6. A Finnish radio station broadcasts news in Latin.
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7. Members of Congress start taking the best seats 12 hours before the president gives his State of the Union speech.
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8. Workers at Amazon's warehouse in Rugeley walk past a life-sized cardboard image of a blonde woman who says: "This is the best job I have ever had!"
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9. Victorian students putcrocodile skins on their walls.
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10. Sea slugs have "disposable penises".
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