10 things we didn't know last week
17:35 UK time, Friday, 12 March 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. A parrot can be repossessed.
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2. Germans call chickenpox windpox, owing to the speed with which it spreads.
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3. Chickenpox is not referred to in medical literature before the 17th Century but it is thought to be an ancient condition whose name springs from the fact that the blisters resemble chick peas.
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4. Some chickens are half-male and half-female.
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5. The largest meat-eating plant in the world likes to eat the droppings of tree shrews and rats, rather than tree shrews and rats themselves.
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6. "Hurt locker" is a phrase used by the military since at least 1966.
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7. The Yukon never actually has 24-hour darkness.
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8. Fifty percent of a jumbo jet can be recycled.
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9. The world's first sleeping bag was patented in 1876, and called an Euklisia rug.
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10. Soldiers in Afghanistan use concrete mixers to wash their clothes.
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