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10 Things

16:36 UK time, Friday, 29 June 2007

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

1. The prime ministerial Jaguar is called Pegasus.

2. MPs cannot resign. To step down, Tony Blair had to accept the post of steward and bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds.

3. Gordon Brown is the first post-war university-educated prime minister not to have gone to Oxford.

4. There is no kneeling or kissing of hands when the Queen offers the position of prime minister.

5. A flotilla of rubber ducks that spilt into the sea from a container ship in 1992 may soon be sighted in British waters. They may continue circling the world for 100 years.

6. Peanuts can be made into diamonds.

7. Sporrans used to be made out of otter fur.

8. Beetles commit rape.

9. Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut is believed to have worn men's clothes and a false beard.

10. Domestic cats can trace their descent to the Middle East.

2 - Daily Telegraph (29 June); 3 - Times (27 June); 4 - ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TV (27 June); 5 - Times (28 June); 8 - Times (25 June)

Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Paul Taylor for this week's picture of a 10-themed "Gordon Brownie".

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