10 things we didn't know last week
14:52 UK time, Friday, 25 April 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. A mother's diet at conception influences the gender of her baby.
2. Elvis visited Britain.
3. Gordon Brown did not send a Christmas card to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel or Russia's outgoing president, Vladimir Putin.
4. Staff at the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Radiophonic Workshop were only offered six-month contracts when it opened 50 years ago, because the corporation feared the work would drive them mad.
5. There are 109 journeys between London's Tube stations that are quicker to walk.
6. Astronauts at the International Space Station must spend two hours a day exercising their legs.
7. The language of space is English.
8. The UK's most valuable tree is the plane.
9. Children are more likely to injure themselves falling out of bed than out of a tree.
10. A woman's chances of quitting smoking is linked to her hormones.
Sources: 3 - Times, Tuesday
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Anna Bostock for this week's picture of 10 American 1950s-era cars, spotted in Havana, Cuba.
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