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10 things we didn't know last week

15:36 UK time, Friday, 30 May 2008

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

1. Kingsley Amis wrote a Bond follow-up.

2. One of the earliest Mars Bars was pineapple-flavoured. It flopped.

3. Charles Lindbergh invented the first pump to keep an organ alive outside the body.

4. San Marino officially has just three British people.

5. Amazonian tribesmen can show aggression by painting themselves red.

6. Within the concept of karma, it's the motive for doing something that is important.

7. Emo, among other things, stands for "emotional hardcore".

8. Women are banned by law from Mount Athos in Greece, home to 20 monasteries.

9. The Stonehenge site was a burial ground for 500 years.

10. The first known science film was a one-minute close-up of cheese mites filmed through a microscope.

Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Melissa Knott, Christchurch, New Zealand for this week's picture of 10 rubber ducks. "My 2.5-year-old daughter's joy. Together we arrange them alongside her bed each night, and they are the first things she sees when she wakes."

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