10 things we didn't know last week
17:00 UK time, Friday, 2 July 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Ancient whales had really big teeth.
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2. German fans moo at England football players and fans.
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3. The process of encrypting secret data in images or text is called steganography.
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4. The name comes from Steganographia, title of a book written in 1499.
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5. Some 14 million British homes date from when asbestos was widely used as a building material.
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6. The celebrity perfume market is estimated to be worth £255m in the UK alone.
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7. Wonder Woman was originally an Amazon.
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8. A Gazan man has more than 430 grandchildren (and 11 wives over his lifetime).
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9. BBC Radio 2 was once called the Light Programme, and Radio 3 the Third Programme.
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10. Withdrawn banknotes are shredded and sometimes used in compost.
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Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Sarah O'Donoghue for this photo of 10 flintlock swivel guns at the Tower of London.
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