10 things we didn't know last week
16:26 UK time, Friday, 14 August 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. You're as likely to be hit by lightning as be killed by a mentally ill person.
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2. It's illegal for British people to play the UK Lottery while on holiday in Spain and the US.
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3. Tom Cruise has got a 14-year-old son.
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4. Only about one or two in 200 people with autism have a savant talent, or exceptional ability.
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5. There's a 40-year wait for an allotment in one part of London.
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6. A freak wave is one that measures roughly three times higher than other swells on the sea at any one time.
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7. They tend to occur at an incidence of about three waves in every 10,000.
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8. North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has a water slide in his garden.
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9. Young men in their early 20s are the worst at keeping their NHS appointments.
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10. Les Paul, whose name is synonymous with the electric guitar, also invented the eight-track tape recorder.
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