10 things we didn't know last week
17:17 UK time, Friday, 16 October 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Earth's warmest year was 1998.
2. Morecambe and Wise nearly split up, before they had even got on television.
3. Sailors in Tudor times had man bags.
4. Some spiders are vegetarian.
5. Each person has 1.5kg of probiotic bacteria in their digestive system, on average.
6. The placebo effect is real.
7. Boyzone sold more singles than Take That in the 1990s.
8. Culled rabbits are used to heat homes in Sweden.
9. William Pitt's dying words were about House of Commons catering.
10. Jeremy Clarkson's father was friends with the Monty Python team.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Arthur Fallas, from Waterloo, Belgium, for this week's picture of 10 cactus balls in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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