10 things we didn't know last week
17:06 UK time, Friday, 28 August 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. iPhones are not yet sold in China.
2. Margaret Thatcher suffered one parliamentary defeat as prime minister - on Sunday trading laws.
3. English holidaymakers drink an average of eight alcoholic drinks a day.
4. The UK population grew more in 2008 than at any time since 1962.
5. And Germany's population is shrinking.
6. West Ham's stadium is really called the Boleyn Ground, not Upton Park.
7. The smell of cut grass makes people happy.
8. A pint glass lasts an average of only three months.
9. An Englishman sailed to the "New World" only two years after the first European is thought to have landed in Newfoundland.
10. Men in China cannot marry until aged 22.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Vic Barton-Walderstadt for this week's picture of 10 deckchairs in Welwyn Garden City.
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