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10 things we didn't know last week

17:24 UK time, Friday, 5 March 2010

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

1. Romance films do better than any other genre at the Academy Awards.

2. The extreme fear of childbirth is called tokophobia.

3. Dead pigs are good for more than bacon - they can help with underwater research.

4. Rats can detect tuberculosis in the saliva of sick patients.

5. The answer to "agtaq gufnx mbvrp eselx vurnm xsmqc aqzxa gakro altam yrvtn tpqzy vgnbx nofqw gonov?" is Station X.

6. The average railway carriage is home to up to 1,000 cockroaches, 200 bed bugs and 200 fleas.

7. A 16th Century portrait of Queen Elizabeth I once contained a snake.

8. She's not just a gold medallist - Amy Williams still holds her school's 200m record.

9. Deep sea fish eat green plants.

10. City-dwelling single men aged 25 to 35 are the country's biggest food-wasters.

Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Alex Legrand from Windsor, Berkshire for this picture of 10 icicles on a garden tap.

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