10 things we didn't know last week
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Ducks' bills reveal whether they have sexually-transmitted diseases.
2. The average British home had 5.34 rooms.
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3. Dogs watch how how nice people are to others to work out who to approach to beg for food.
4. Time travel storylines are officially discouraged in China.
5. The first Dulux dog was called Dash.
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6. More girls than boys became scouts in the past year.
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7. Some dinosaurs did their hunting at night.
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8. The world's smallest ever music instrument is a guitar the size of a single blood cell.
9. There are 8.5 million football-related words in English.
10. Male humpback whales play "Chinese whispers" across 6,000km.
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