10 things we didn't know last week
17:36 UK time, Friday, 17 November 2006
1. Cornish pasties may, it seems, come from Devon.
2. Former US president Gerald Ford was born as Leslie Lynch King. His mother re-married Gerald Ford Senior, after which the future president became known as Gerald Ford Junior.
3. Liverpool footballing legend Bill Shankly officiated at women's football matches.
4. Birdwatchers call themselves "birders", not "twitchers".
5. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
6. Al-Qaeda test chemical weapons on rabbits, according to a former operative.
7. Al-Jazeera International, the English-speaking branch of the Middle East-based news channel, is not available in the US (except over the internet).
8. Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated on another planet.
9. Maltese people are the heaviest in Europe, with a body mass index of 26.6, compared to 25.4 in the UK.
10. Those notes… it looks like the drug crystal methamphetamine caused the paper to disintegrate.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Alan Chesterman for sending this week's picture of 10 nuts... or is it acorns?
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