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10 things we didn't know last week

17:16 UK time, Friday, 27 March 2009

10pots_203jpg.jpgSnippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Tits are also known as bumbarrels.
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2. The Daily Sport website is banned in the House of Commons.

3. Teenagers don't like pink light.

4. Crabs feel pain.

5. Britons spend six months of their lives queueing.

6. A broken heart is known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy and it can be cured.

7. Britney Spears's family comes from Tottenham in north London.

8. People like their tea to have a temperature of 56-60C.

9. Hyenas have the strongest jaws in the animal kingdom.

10. Charles Darwin loved eating vegetables.

Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Basil Long, and to Jon Dalladay for this week's picture of 10 Victorian rhubarb forcers in the Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall.

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