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10 things we didn't know last week

17:07 UK time, Friday, 9 November 2012

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

1. Dogs prefer classical music to other genres.

2. Germany and the UK send fewer students to the US than do Nepal or Vietnam.

3. The British have invaded 90% of the world's countries.
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4. Abraham Lincoln is the US president who has been portrayed most on film.

5. Crocodiles' jaws are more sensitive than humans' fingertips.
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6. Daniel O'Donnell is the only artist to have had an album in the UK charts each year for the last 25 years consecutively.
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7. There is a correlation between the amount of chocolate a country consumes and the number of Nobel laureates it produces.

8. The nests of Australian superb fairy wrens are password-protected.

9. Apple holds the patent for rounded corners on electronic devices.

10. The staff carried by the next Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has a rock badger carved on it because he once burst out laughing while reading aloud in church a biblical passage about the animal.

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