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10 things we didn't know last week

17:00 UK time, Friday, 2 July 2010

10rifles.jpgSnippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Ancient whales had really big teeth.

2. German fans moo at England football players and fans.
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3. The process of encrypting secret data in images or text is called steganography.

4. The name comes from Steganographia, title of a book written in 1499.

5. Some 14 million British homes date from when asbestos was widely used as a building material.

6. The celebrity perfume market is estimated to be worth £255m in the UK alone.

7. Wonder Woman was originally an Amazon.

8. A Gazan man has more than 430 grandchildren (and 11 wives over his lifetime).

9. ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 2 was once called the Light Programme, and Radio 3 the Third Programme.

10. Withdrawn banknotes are shredded and sometimes used in compost.

Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Sarah O'Donoghue for this photo of 10 flintlock swivel guns at the Tower of London.

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