10 things we didn't know last week
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. A patas monkey would beat Usain Bolt's 100m world record by three seconds.
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2. The Olympic Village has its own mayor.
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3. Vampires were a worry in Bulgaria 700 years ago.
4. Modern pop is louder and less varied than that of the 1950s and 60s.
5. Between Laos's first Olympics in 1980 and 2004, all its competitors came last or second-to-last.
6. Men's brains are designed to shut down after sex.
7. The larger its horn, the healthier is a male rhinoceros beetle.
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8. A single artificial intelligence programme or "bot" can create 30,000 Wikipedia articles in one year.
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9. Nit combs are much older than previously thought.
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10. The 750,000 feral camels that roam the Australian outback are now the world's largest wild herd.
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