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10 things we didn't know last week

16:22 UK time, Friday, 15 May 2009

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

1. Sending nude images via a mobile phone is called "sexting".

2. Miss Universe must remain single for a year.

3. The Odeon cinema chains are named after their British founder Oscar Deutsch, and the acronym stands for Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our Nation.

4. Use of the word "carbuncle" to describe a building was first made in the 19th Century to describe Buckingham Palace.

5. We are born violent.

6. And a tribe in Bolivia has a festival of violence to settle disputes.

7. Joanna Lumley was sounded out by Labour to run as London Mayor in 2000.

8. Plants can water themselves.


9. Emotionally intelligent women orgasm more.

10. Some petals have velcro-like surfaces.

Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Andrew Ferguson for this week's picture of 10 lids from Smarties tubes.

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