10 things we didn't know last week
17:18 UK time, Friday, 14 May 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. £1m made up of £20 notes weighs 25 times as much as the equivalent of £1m in 500 euro notes.
2. Downing Street's famous black front door was once green.
3. And the original door - now in the Churchill Museum - has its own cleaner.
4. Shakespeare's Henry VIII is considered jinxed because during a performance in 1613, the Globe theatre burned down.
5. The prime minister's first task is always to answer the question of whether he would retaliate in the event of a nuclear attack.
6. More than half of Spain's cabinet is female.
7. China smokes one third of the world's cigarettes.
8. And there are 4.5 trillion cigarette butts discarded each year.
9. Florence Nightingale used the pseudonym "Miss Smith" to evade the media.
10. Hair is used to clean up oil spills because it is adsorbent (not absorbent).
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Vic Barton=Walderstadt for this week's picture of 10 spring buds in Hertfordshire.
The 
