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10 things we didn't know last week

15:12 UK time, Friday, 15 March 2013

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

1. Plants lace their nectar with caffeine to keep pollinators loyal.

2. Hemingway never used a Moleskine notebook.

3. You can attract beluga whales by singing underwater.

4. Shops get staff to strategically mess things up.
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5. The phallus-shaped Spartobranchus tenuis was an ancient relative of acorn worms.
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6. One of the Crossrail tunnelling machines is called 'Phyllis' after Phyllis Pearsall who produced the first A-Z.

7. On the net's most crime-ridden network - Spectranet in Nigeria - 62% of addresses controlled by the ISP send out spam.
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8. "Aunt" is the most popular pornographic search term in Syria.

9. Dominic West is a disciple of guru Babaji.

10. Big eyes contributed to the Neanderthals' demise.
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