10 things we didn't know last week

1. The average person receives 9,672 minor injuries in a lifetime.
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2. Almost half of meerkats are inbred.
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3. Robert Mugabe is a Chelsea and Barcelona fan.
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4. Dormice climb trees using their whiskers.
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5. A man called Sidney Barthwell was a classmate of both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney.
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6. British censors banned under-18s from viewing the film Alien because it presented "a perverse view of the reproductive function".
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7. The Queen used to practise wearing her crown while bathing Prince Charles.
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8. The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies will crash into each other in four billion years.
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9. One in three South Koreans follow Manchester United.
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10. The US has more aircraft carriers than the rest of the world put together.
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