10 things we didn't know this time last week
18:14 UK time, Friday, 16 May 2008
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Nice, in the economic terms in which Bank of England governor Mervyn King was speaking, stands for "non-inflationary constant expansion".
2. The rubble from the old Wembley Stadium was turned into man-made hills.
3. Gordon Brown is a Bee Gees fan.
4. Neil Diamond has never had a number one album in the United States... until now.
5. Locusts combine into swarms because they are frightened of being eaten by each other.
6. Knitting patterns of trademarked characters can breach copyright.
7. The search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict a belief in God.
8. The Ministry of Defence has amassed 160 files on UFOs, containing details of 8,000 sightings.
9. A child of three is expected to know about 300 words.
10. Sloths aren't lazy.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Martin Cheeseman of Faversham for this week's picture of 10 caterpillars, taken in Avignon. "My son Noah called me out on to the patio to see a caterpillar procession. Apparently they're the larvae of the 'pine processionary moth'," he writes.
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