10 things we didn't know last week
17:36 UK time, Friday, 17 November 2006
1. Cornish pasties may, it seems, come from Devon.
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2. Former US president Gerald Ford was born as Leslie Lynch King. His mother re-married Gerald Ford Senior, after which the future president became known as Gerald Ford Junior.
3. Liverpool footballing legend Bill Shankly officiated at women's football matches.
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4. Birdwatchers call themselves "birders", not "twitchers".
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5. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
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6. Al-Qaeda test chemical weapons on rabbits, according to a former operative.
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7. Al-Jazeera International, the English-speaking branch of the Middle East-based news channel, is not available in the US (except over the internet).
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8. Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated on another planet.
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9. Maltese people are the heaviest in Europe, with a body mass index of 26.6, compared to 25.4 in the UK.
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10. Those crumbling euro notes… it looks like the drug crystal methamphetamine caused the paper to disintegrate.
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