10 things we didn't know last week
16:25 UK time, Friday, 8 August 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Cataplexy is a rare condition that means laughter can bring on paralysis.
2. Flat-earthers call spherical-world believers "globularists".
3. The number 8 is an auspicious number in China because its Mandarin translation is "ba", which sounds like the word for "prosper".
4. All countries have rights over resources up to 200 nautical miles from their shoreline.
5. The Japanese have a day to celebrate greenery called midorinohi.
6. Pet dogs can catch human yawns.
7. Fencing is Italy's most successful Olympic sport.
8. Sportsmen make better decisions in heat.
9. Some people can hear what they see.
10. Robins only became a symbol for Christmas in the 19th Century, when postmen - who mostly brought mail at Christmas - wore scarlet waistcoats and were known as Robin Redbreasts.
Sources: 7 - ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ One
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Ian McKenzie for this week's picture of 10 beach huts in Normandy.
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