10 things we didn't know last week
18:02 UK time, Friday, 10 November 2006
1. An infestation of head lice is called pediculosis.
2. The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.
3. Sea urchins see with their feet.
4. The fastest supercomputer in the UK can make 15.4 trillion calculations per second.
5. Airships use as much fuel in a week as a 767 uses to get from its gate to the runway. But are, obviously, much slower.
6. Four million people in the UK have phobias about toilets, says the National Phobics Society.
7. Online shoppers will only wait an average of four seconds for an internet page to load before giving up.
8. Salt makes bitter food taste sweeter.
9. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defence secretary in US history.
10. White poppies are also sold to mark Remembrance day - the first produced in 1933 as a symbol for peace.
[3. Times, 10 November, 8. Heston Blumenthal: In Search of Perfection, ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Two, 7 Nov.]
Thanks to Tony Janes in Herts for sending the picture of 10 tomatoes.
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