10 things we didn't know last week
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Baboons can recognise four-letter words.
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2. Ants inoculate themselves by licking each other.
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3. People typically wear a half to a third as much sunscreen as they need.
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4. To join the FBI, men must complete at least 38 situps in a minute and perform 30 untimed pushups.
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5. Lightning can contain enough energy to boil eight million cups of tea.
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6. Holding a gun makes someone look taller.
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7. Rangoon has an underground punk scene.
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8. In Rome, 7,575 streets are named after men while 580 are named after women.
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9. A tweet by Jamie Oliver is worth $3,250 (£2,044).
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10. Male pandas are only at their reproductive peak 24 days a year.
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