10 things we didn't know last week
17:56 UK time, Friday, 7 December 2007
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. To be declared dead there is no time limit - the seven-year rule only applies in the High Court on the settlement of a disputed estate.
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2. No Briton has been extradited from Panama since an extradition treaty was signed 100 years ago.
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3. JE55USS - and other combinations of letters and numbers with strong religious connotations - cannot be used for personalised number plates. Rude words are also banned.
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4. There are fewer than 50 wild animals performing in UK-owned circuses.
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5. Two-thirds of Ricky Hatton's calorie intake when training for a big fight - and trying to lose excess weight he piles on between bouts - is from meal replacement supplements.
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6. India's "hugging saint" has dispensed 26 million cuddles - her helpers count each off with a clicker.
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7. Books used to be bound in human skin.
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8. Santa Claus, for Dutch and Belgian children, lives in Spain and travels north by steam ship.
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9. One in four children don't count their father as immediate family.
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10. Tango routes are longer routes flown by some airlines to by-pass the expense of flying through several air traffic zones.
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