10 things we didn't know last week
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Breaking wind is a bookable offence in football.
2. Black soldiers fighting for the Free French Forces were removed from the unit which led the liberation of Paris to ensure a "whites only" victory.
3. Many of the mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way.
4. Britain pays an annual sum to Ireland to cover healthcare costs of Irish workers who have returned home.
5. Jellied hoof meat from horses is a delicacy in Siberia.
6. Potholes are aggravated by cold weather.
7. Car ownership in India is about nine per thousand people.
8. Mexico City was once a floating city.
9. Six percent of England's streets are littered with rubber bands.
10. More than 97% of all e-mail traffic is spam.
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Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Sam Bennett of Sittingbourne, Kent, for this week's picture of 10 cars at the British Touring Car Championships meeting at Brands Hatch last Sunday.