10 things we didn't know last week
14:33 UK time, Friday, 26 August 2011
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Apple founder Steve Jobs patented designs for two glass staircases.
2. Almost a quarter of new words added to the Chambers Dictionary come from internet culture.
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3. Female birds like confident males.
4. Col Gaddafi's compound contained a photo album filled with pictures of former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
5. "Astoundingly thick" is an acceptable description of someone who performs badly on Mastermind.
6. Our ancestors began cooking 1.9 million years ago.
7. Stress really does make hair turn grey.
8. A planet 4,000 light years away from earth is made almost entirely of diamonds.
9. Getting married increases the risk of putting on weight.
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10. Britons are now twice as likely to be bitten by a mosquito in the UK than in the 10 years to 2006.
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