10 things we didn't know last week

Magazine Monitor — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:42:09 -0800

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Michael Jackson's iconic white glove is a modified golf glove.
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2. To be a Beefeater you have to have done 22 years military service.
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3. Seemingly vegetative patients are asked to think of playing tennis while being scanned for evidence of consciousness.
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4. The UK had its first curry restaurant in 1809.
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5. The hamlet of Seathwaite in Borrowdale is, on average, the wettest inhabited place in England.
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6. All British infrastructure, including bridges, is designed to at least withstand the kind of flooding that would happen on average once every 200 years.
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7. Hammerhead sharks can actually see rather well.
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8. And humans use their skin to "hear".
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9. Google will only remove images from its image search facility if legally ordered to do so.
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10. Christmas trees can be dangerous.
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10 things we didn't know last week