10 things we didn't know last week
17:23 UK time, Friday, 19 October 2007
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. The brain responds to facial expressions at a speed of less than 40 milliseconds.
2. Having sex daily can improve a man's sperm quality - increasing their partner's chance of getting pregnant.
3. CO2 emissions from shipping are twice the level of aviation.
4. George Clooney and Pierce Brosnan have had Bell's Palsy - a nerve condition that can result in paralysis on one side of the face.
5. Middlesbrough's first professional football club, established in the late Victorian era, was called Middlesbrough Ironopolis.
6. Four people died in France in the Great Storm of 1987.
7. Migrants earned on average £424 per week last year, compared with £395 for UK-born workers.
8. Discrimination against atheists is allowed in employment in Texas, according to the state's constitution.
9. Leeches are used as treatment for cauliflower ears.
10. Asterix was so-called so he would appear at the start of an encyclopaedia of comics.
Sources: 6 - ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ News 24, 15 Oct; 7 - Independent 17 Oct.
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