10 things we didn't know last week
17:10 UK time, Friday, 21 September 2012
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. The average Mexican eats 430 eggs each year, the highest per capita amount of any nation.
2. Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has had two pet badgers.
3. East London schoolgirls in the 1940s did the Mobot and Usain Bolt's lightning bolt poses.
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4. The oldest dental filling has been found in a Stone Age tooth.
5. There are more references to the "right to vote" than "the right to keep or bear arms" in the US Constitution.
6. Decorative webs help spiders attract their food.
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7. Michael Jackson recorded an anti-abortion song.
8. Ed Sheeran is the most pirated artist in the UK.
9. Cod get more fertile as they get older.
10. China's fertility would have declined at a similar rate without the one-child policy and would continue to decline even if the policy was discarded.
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