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10 things we didn't know last week

15:58 UK time, Friday, 15 June 2012

Gorillas

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


1. Corn saplings have their own language.

2. LinkedIn passwords sell for one dollar or less.

3. Gorillas use baby talk.
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4. It takes six and a quarter hours to read The Great Gatsby aloud.
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5. You need to walk at 4ft per second to successfully negotiate a pelican crossing.

6. Irn Bru is the toughest stain to shift.

7. A cabbage costs $28 in northern Canada.
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8. A doctor on Captain Scott's polar expeditions concluded that penguins were sexually depraved.

9. More new magazines were launched than closed in the US last year.

10. Roy Hodgson is in the acknowledgments of Sebastian Faulks's novel A Week in December.

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