10 things we didn't know last week
15:34 UK time, Friday, 12 August 2011
1. Mr Men author Roger Hargreaves was the third best-selling author of the last decade, topped only by JK Rowling and Dan Brown.
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2. The prison system in Brazil holds an annual Miss Penitentiary beauty contest.
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3. TV's Mork and Mindy visited a mother and daughter in Dulwich, south London, in 2003.
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4. BBC Radio 4 deters foxes from attacking swans. More details Daily Telegraph
5. Sparrows' birdsong has a lot in common with the profanity-strewn bragging of rappers.
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6. A shorter than average tongue is not good if you're learning to speak Korean.
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7. The Redneck Olympics contains sports such as armpit serenade, watermelon seed spitting contest and bobbin' for pigs feet.
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8. Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger can sing in Sanskrit.
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9. Most of the 3.5m people who visit Liberty Island each year do not climb the Statue of Liberty.
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10. A thin belt of antimatter envelops the Earth.
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Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Big thanks this week to Keith Bell from Bristol for his picture of 10 Aermacchi MB-339s, flown by the Italian Air Force aerobatic display team.
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