10 things we didn't know last week
16:07 UK time, Friday, 12 June 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Gay people in China used to be prosecuted under "hooliganism" laws.
2. Canada used to border Zimbabwe.
3. Carly Simon had a stutter.
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4. Sir Alan Sugar donates his salary from The Apprentice to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
5. Setanta started in an Irish dance hall in west London in 1990.
6. A new word in the English language is created every 98 minutes.
7. You're seven times more likely to be a millionaire if you're called Patel than if you're called Smith.
8. More than half of all Patels in the UK are married to people born Patel.
9. Only eight Britons who fought in the Spanish Civil War are known to be still alive.
10. Britney's father monitors her mobile phone use.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Vic Barton-Walderstadt for this week's picture of 10 drops of water in Welwyn Garden City.
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