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10 things we didn't know last week

15:34 UK time, Friday, 12 August 2011

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Mr Men author Roger Hargreaves was the third best-selling author of the last decade, topped only by JK Rowling and Dan Brown.

2. The prison system in Brazil holds an annual Miss Penitentiary beauty contest.

3. TV's Mork and Mindy visited a mother and daughter in Dulwich, south London, in 2003.

4. ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4 deters foxes from attacking swans.

5. Sparrows' birdsong has a lot in common with the profanity-strewn bragging of rappers.

6. A shorter than average tongue is not good if you're learning to speak Korean.

7. The Redneck Olympics contains sports such as armpit serenade, watermelon seed spitting contest and bobbin' for pigs feet.

8. Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger can sing in Sanskrit.
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9. Most of the 3.5m people who visit Liberty Island each year do not climb the Statue of Liberty.
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10. A thin belt of antimatter envelops the Earth.
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Seen 10 things? . Big thanks this week to Keith Bell from Bristol for his picture of 10 Aermacchi MB-339s, flown by the Italian Air Force aerobatic display team.

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