10 things we didn't know last week
16:42 UK time, Friday, 1 October 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Elgar wrote world's first football chant.
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2. The UN has an Office of Outer Space Affairs.
3. There's a market for mammoth ivory and it sells for £330 per kilogram.
4. Neanderthals were tech-savvy.
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5. Engineers estimate that 12 to 15 tonnes of rock will need to be cleared by the trapped Chilean miners each day.
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6. In French, the words for "inflation" and "fellatio" are very similar.
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7. The first travelator in the UK was at Bank Tube station in London.
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8. Former PM Edward Heath left his home to the nation as a museum when he died.
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9. Intestinal worms can grow to more than 2m long.
10. Penguins have been around for 36m years.
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