10 things we didn't know last week
15:09 UK time, Friday, 8 July 2011
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Lakes can be given village green status.
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2. Bad oral hygiene can delay conception by two months.
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3. Polar bears have Irish ancestry.
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4. California has drawn up a legal definition for the hot dog.
5. All ladybirds start out bright yellow.
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6. The Queen wore dresses from a wholesaler for her tour of the Commonwealth in 1953-4.
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7. The human body can accept a synthetic windpipe.
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8. Oxbridge entrance is dominated by just five schools.
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9. Reporters in the 1940s and 50s paid the legal defence costs of accused killers to get their exclusive stories.
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10. Cows have best friends.
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