10 things we didn't know last week
14:15 UK time, Friday, 15 February 2013
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1.Urban blackbirds grow up faster than their country cousins.
More details
2. Fidgeting is good for men's concentration but bad for women's concentration.
3. For every person in the US bitten by a shark, 25 get bitten by New Yorkers.
More details (³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 4)
4. Urban fox numbers haven't risen in 30 years.
More details
5. Dame Maggie Smith has never watched an episode of Downton Abbey.
6. A Finnish radio station broadcasts news in Latin.
More details
7. Members of Congress start taking the best seats 12 hours before the president gives his State of the Union speech.
8. Workers at Amazon's warehouse in Rugeley walk past a life-sized cardboard image of a blonde woman who says: "This is the best job I have ever had!"
9. Victorian students putcrocodile skins on their walls.
More details
10. Sea slugs have "disposable penises".
More details
Seen a thing? Tell on Twitter using the hashtag #thingIdidntknowlastweek
The 
