10 things we didn't know last week
16:44 UK time, Friday, 13 November 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Reading lamps can run off the electricity that comes down a defunct landline socket.
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2. Men's urine is less acidic than women's.
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3. Coral can eat jellyfish.
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4. The first sell-by dates were on milk and cream in the 1950s.
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5. Early flights to India stopped to refuel in Basra.
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6. Porn for the furry community is known as "yiff".
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7. Russia has 11 time zones.
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8. Travelling in a "road train" can cut fuel consumption by 20%.
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9. Canadian Transport Minister John Baird called his cat Thatcher.
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10. Pigtails used to be known as queues.
Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Darren Farr for thing #2, and to Ann Cooper for this week's picture of 10 Spanish dresses for little girls, taken at a Costa Blanca market.
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