10 things we didn't know last week
15:16 UK time, Friday, 19 June 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. There are 2,500 year old bird nests still in continuous use.
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2. The Fred Perry sportswear logo was almost a pipe - Perry was a keen smoker - but his business partner thought this would put off women customers.
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3. As a cold-blooded insect, flies are slower in the early morning and evening when the air is cooler, and speed up in the heat of the day.
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4. C, the single-letter codename for the head of MI6, dates from when the first boss, Captain Sir Mansfield Cumming, signed himself "C" for Cumming.
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5. Streetlights cause problems for bats.
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6. The pilot and co-pilot on a passenger plane are not allowed to have the same meal in case they both get food poisoning.
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7. The Queen has an allotment.
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8. Scotland has the lowest age for criminal responsibility in Europe.
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9. Hitachi makes trains.
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10. Pak Do-ik, the North Korean footballer, is still known as "the dentist" among Italian football fans for causing them pain by scoring the goal that saw them beaten 1-0 in the 1966 World Cup.
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Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Vic Barton-Walderstadt for this picture of 10 bollards.
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