10 things
17:56 UK time, Friday, 18 May 2007
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Hair loss in humans might be reversible.
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2. Almost one-third of men are balding by the time they reach 30.
3. 14% of Rolls-Royce owners also own a private jet
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4. Dirty Harry and The Exorcist III are based on a spate of unsolved murders in San Francisco in the late 1960s.
5. Jose Mourinho has a Yorkshire terrier called Gullit, named after the Dutch footballer Ruud Gullit.
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6. Nearly half of pregnancies are unplanned.
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7. The UK has the most post offices in Europe.
8. The insults "moron", "idiot", "imbecile" and "cretin" were once official medical diagnoses.
9. There were no sperm donors in Northern Ireland, until recently, and only 208 in the UK.
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10. Cranes disappeared from the UK 400 years ago because the East Anglian fenland was drained. They recently returned.
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Sources: 2 – Times, 17 May; 4 – Guardian, 12 May; 7 - BBC Radio 5Live, 17 May; 8 – Balderdash and Piffle, BBC Two, 11 May
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