10 THINGS
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Snippets harvested from the weekās news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience.
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Shoppers spend Ā£46m a year on ādistraction buysā - items bought to mask embarrassing purchases, such as condoms and treatments for piles, in the same shopping basket.
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The term āmisfeasanceā means to carry out a legal act illegally.
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Rats smell in āstereoā - the rodentsā brain responding differently to smells from the left and right.
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The telegram which informed the world that Orville Wright had successfully flown misspelled his name as āOrevelleā.
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The communications director of the London Planetarium is called Diane Moon.
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Louisiana has the highest rate of coastal land loss in North America - an area the size of Wembley stadium is lost to the sea every 20 minutes.
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More households have two or more cars than have none.
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Half of all cars sold in the United States are four-wheel drives.
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Bill Gates is so rich the US tax department has a special computer devoted solely to his finances.
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Metropolitan Police chief Sir Ian Blair has a glass cabinet in his office containing a Sikh sword, a Jewish prayer book and a book entitled A Portrait of New Zealand
[Sources, where stories are not linked - 1: Guardian, 3 Feb. 4: Wikipedia. 5 & 7: The Times, 31 Jan. 8: BBC Oneās News at 10, 31 Jan. 9. Yahoo News. 10: Guardian, Monday 30 Jan.]
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