10 things we didn't know last week
17:42 UK time, Friday, 17 December 2010
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Catherine Tate appeared in her first Nativity play as Gary Glitter.
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2. The English language has doubled in popularity in the last century.
3. The West Midlands is the obesity capital of the UK.
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4. The Christmas Day truce of 1914 was not a one-off, but repeated throughout the war.
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5. The average adult spends 24 minutes a day fetching and drinking hot drinks.
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6. Whoopi Goldberg sent David Cameron a gift - tickets to her show.
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7. The word "monkey" is one of the most commonly hacked passwords.
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8. Fearless people exist.
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9. Stressed-out elephants are more likely to raid farms.
10. The world's most expensive Christmas tree is in Abu Dhabi.
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