10 things we didn't know last week
17:18 UK time, Friday, 14 May 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. £1m made up of £20 notes weighs 25 times as much as the equivalent of £1m in 500 euro notes.
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2. Downing Street's famous black front door was once green.
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3. And the original door - now in the Churchill Museum - has its own cleaner.
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4. Shakespeare's Henry VIII is considered jinxed because during a performance in 1613, the Globe theatre burned down.
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5. The prime minister's first task is always to answer the question of whether he would retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack.
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6. More than half of Spain's cabinet is female.
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7. China smokes one third of the world's cigarettes.
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8. And there are 4.5 trillion cigarette butts discarded each year.
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9. Florence Nightingale used the pseudonym "Miss Smith" to evade the media.
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10. Hair is used to clean up oil spills because it is adsorbent (not absorbent).
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