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10 things we didn't know last week

17:22 UK time, Friday, 29 January 2010

10birthdaycandles29jan.jpgSnippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. By 57, men tend to wear their trousers just seven inches below their armpit.

2. Running barefoot may pose less risk for injury than wearing running shoes.

3. Motor home owners in the UK need a professional licence to drive one of the "homes on wheels". Not those in the US.

4. Swans divorce.

5. Texting may help children learn to spell btr.

6. Some dinosaurs were ginger.

7. Haggis has been banned in the US since 1989.

8. Among the first ever vacancies listed at early job centres were piano regulator, picture frame gilder and "girl confectioner's packer".

9. Mackenzie Crook keeps tortoises and three of them star in his latest play.

10. Face blindness - difficulty in remembering faces - is called prosopagnosia.

Seen 10 things? Send us a picture to use next week. Thanks to Anita Bekker for this week's picture of 10 birthday candles on her daughter's cake.

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