10 things we didn't know last week
16:50 UK time, Friday, 10 September 2010
1. The salary with optimum happiness is £50,000.
2. Hull lost 85% of its buildings during the Blitz.
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3. Geoff Capes was a champion budgerigar breeder.
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4. Spiders eat birds. .
5. A hand dryer can increase germs.
6. Clint Eastwood turned down playing James Bond and Superman.
7. The trapped miners in Chile are recycling.
8. People who rise from their chair quickly are more likely to live longer.
9. Diners pay more for desserts when they on a trolley.
10. Happy people give more to charity.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Vic Barton-Walderstadt for this week's picture of 10 horse chestnut pods.
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