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10 things we didn't know last week

16:00 UK time, Friday, 1 June 2012

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


1. The average person receives 9,672 minor injuries in a lifetime.

2. Almost half of meerkats are inbred.

3. Robert Mugabe is a Chelsea and Barcelona fan.

4. Dormice climb trees using their whiskers.
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5. A man called Sidney Barthwell was a classmate of both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.

6. British censors banned under-18s from viewing the film Alien because it presented "a perverse view of the reproductive function".

7. The Queen used to practise wearing her crown while bathing Prince Charles.

8. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will crash into each other in four billion years.
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9. One in three South Koreans follow Manchester United.

10. The US has more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world put together.
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