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10 things we didn't know last week

16:44 UK time, Friday, 13 November 2009

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

1. Reading lamps can run off the electricity that comes down a defunct landline socket.

2. Men's urine is less acidic than women's.

3. Coral can eat jellyfish.

4. The first sell-by dates were on milk and cream in the 1950s.

5. Early flights to India stopped to refuel in Basra.

6. Porn for the furry community is known as "yiff".

7. Russia has 11 time zones.

8. Travelling in a "road train" can cut fuel consumption by 20%.

9. Canadian Transport Minister John Baird called his cat Thatcher.

10. Pigtails used to be known as queues.

Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Darren Farr for thing #2, and to Ann Cooper for this week's picture of 10 Spanish dresses for little girls, taken at a Costa Blanca market.

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