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10 things we didn't know last week

13:47 UK time, Friday, 19 August 2011

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Camp Bastion is as big geographically as Reading.

2. Asda Illustrated is the UK's top-selling magazine.

3. The collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a "bloom". More details

4. You can charter a whole Virgin Pendolino train.

5. A candle flame contains millions of tiny diamonds.

6. Dogs can be trained to identify the scent of lung cancer long before symptoms develop.

7. A fisherman can catch a human being.

8. Danny DeVito is the 2,445th star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

9. The average Briton suffers 726 hangovers in a lifetime.

10. Every county in England has otters.

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