10 things we didn't know last week
17:21 UK time, Friday, 4 January 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Police are not required to clean up a crime scene once evidence has been gathered.
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2. Networks of sensors are embedded in road surfaces to beam back information to councils on ice, rain, wind and temperatures.
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3. Japan's justice ministry surveys ex-cons on topics such as whether they liked the design of their prison-issue pyjamas.
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4. Raila Odinga's first name means "stinging nettle".
5. Immunity to norovirus the annual winter vomiting bug, is only short-lived.
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6. Britons are keenest on fast food, more so than even Americans.
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7. It's the first time in 50 years that neither the president nor his deputy will be seeking re-election in the United States.
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8. The Royal Marsden was the first hospital in the world to be dedicated to cancer when it was founded in 1851.
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9. Victorians believed smoking cleared the lungs - and struck off Dr Thomas Allinson, who founded the bakery of the same name, for describing nicotine as a "foul poison" and advocating healthy eating.
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10. Malaysian hotel rooms may be fitted with CCTV.
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Sources, where not linked: 4: The Times, 1 January. Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Theresa Bubbear for this week's picture of 10 oranges halved and waiting to be squeezed for Bucks Fizz on Christmas Day.
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