10 things we didn't know last week
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Goats wear condoms.
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2. Big Lebowski fanatics call themselves "achievers".
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3. And the f-word is used 281 times in the film.
4. Sarah Palin is 10th cousin to Princess Diana.
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5. The word "unbepissed" means "not being urinated on".
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6. Contrary to myth, the suicide rate in New York in the month following the Wall Street Crash in 1929 was lower than normal.
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7. The phrase "dead cat bounce" means a brief rally in the price of falling stock.
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8. Scottish poet Robert Burns was Bob Dylan's muse.
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9. The annual cost of forest loss is more than the amount being lost in the banking crisis.
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10. Two New Testament books were left out of the modern Bible.
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