10 things we didn't know last week
17:59 UK time, Friday, 1 August 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Bees act in a similar way to serial killers.
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2. Liz Taylor has broken her back five times.
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3. Lake Baikal in Russia holds about a fifth of the world's fresh water.
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4. The blank stickers for visa stamps are called vignettes.
5. Dyslexics can find it particularly difficult to learn the piano.
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6. Van Gogh often reused canvasses to save money.
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7. Seals can navigate from the position of stars.
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8. Mick Jagger's officially a pensioner.
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9. Being single in middle age can increase your risk of dementia.
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10. In a drinking contest between a pen-tailed tree-shrew and a human, the former would win.
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