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10 things we didn't know last week

09:35 UK time, Friday, 9 December 2011

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

1. The Crown owns almost half of the UK's shoreline.

2. Four out of the past nine governors of the US state of Illinois have gone to prison.

3. You are given a lottery ticket if you clean up dog poo in New Taipei City in Taiwan.More details

4. There is a bamboo plantation on the outskirts of Amsterdam.

5. Polar bears are cannibals.
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6. Singer Adele doesn't like North American beer.

7. Brussels sprouts are up to 20% bigger this year.

8. The girl on the classic road sign "children going to or from school" is based on a school photo of its designer Margaret Calvert.
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9. Swedish fashion chain H&M has been using doctored photos of shop dummies - superimposed with real-life models' heads - as bikini bodies on its website.

10. The world's oldest dog, who died this week, lived to the equivalent of about 125 years for a human.

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