10 things we didn't know last week
17:00 UK time, Friday, 16 March 2012
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Fifty-two per cent of male officers in the Metropolitan Police were overweight, 22% were obese and 1% were morbidly obese in 2011.
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2. Samantha Cameron was in New York during the 9/11 attacks.
3. Colossal squid have the biggest eyes in the animal kingdom, because they need to spot predatory sperm whales.
4. Thirty-two per cent of bread purchased by UK households is dumped when it could be eaten.
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5. Bees can overwhelm hornet invaders by cooking them inside huge ball of bodies.
6. Sex-starved fruit flies turn to drink.
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7. The part of a male bird's brain which deals with song shrinks at the end of the breeding season.
8. Singer Sade was the top earning British musician in the US last year.
9. Right Said Fred apparently feature in Bashar al-Assad's iTunes playlists.
10. A Bolivian judge has admitted to "reading" coca leaves to help him make decisions
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