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10 things we didn't know last week

17:48 UK time, Friday, 14 March 2008

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

1. The Duchess of Cornwall once watched Bob Marley in concert.

2. Archimedes was murdered over pi.

3. Forty years after colour TV was introduced to the UK there are still 34,700 people with black and white television licences.

4. Late running trains cost the country 14 million minutes last year.

5. A 4cm hole in the heart is not necessarily fatal.

6. Short men are more likely to be jealous.

7. Toasters are banned in Cuba.

8. Yasmin Le Bon is an anti-counterfeit campaigner.

9. Dolphins can communicate with whales.

10. The difference between vines within France's Champagne region and those just outside is 995,000 euros.

Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Brendan Murphy, Coatbridge, Scotland, for this week's picture of 10 bollards.

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