10 things we didn't know last week
17:37 UK time, Friday, 6 November 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Gordon Brown gave up a £2m pension on his first day in office
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2. At peak times, 32,000 pedestrians cross Oxford Circus junction in one hour.
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3. Lyrics from Jon Bon Jovi's new album are framed and hanging up in the White House.
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4. Journalists visiting Sesame Street are banned from asking Bert and Ernie if they are gay.
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5. The BBC rejected Sesame Street in 1971 because it was "too authoritarian".
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6. Elmo's favourite food is wasabi .
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7. Tall men can have small parents.
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8. Part-time veggies are called flexitarians.
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9. A missing child must usually have been missing for at least two years to warrant an age progression image.
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10. French babies cry with an accent.
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