# 10 Thing We Didn't Know Last Week!

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**Created:** [February 4, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/10-thing-we-didnt-know-last-week/177742 "2006-02-04T19:21:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 4, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/10-thing-we-didnt-know-last-week/177742/1 "2006-02-04T19:21:32Z")

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> [@BBC](#):
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> 10 THINGS  
> 10 mobiles by Tony Janes
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> See 10 things? Send us a picture
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> Snippets harvested from the week’s news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience.
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> 1. Shoppers spend £46m a year on “distraction buys” - items bought to mask embarrassing purchases, such as condoms and treatments for piles, in the same shopping basket.
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> 2. The term “misfeasance” means to carry out a legal act illegally.  
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> 3. Rats smell in “stereo” - the rodents’ brain responding differently to smells from the left and right.  
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> 4. The telegram which informed the world that Orville Wright had successfully flown misspelled his name as “Orevelle”.  
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> 5. The communications director of the London Planetarium is called Diane Moon.
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> 6. 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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> 7. More households have two or more cars than have none.
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> 8. Half of all cars sold in the United States are four-wheel drives.
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> 9. Bill Gates is so rich the US tax department has a special computer devoted solely to his finances.
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> 10. 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
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> [Sources, where stories are not linked - 1: Guardian, 3 Feb. 4: Wikipedia. 5 & 7: The Times, 31 Jan. 8: BBC One’s News at 10, 31 Jan. 9. Yahoo News. 10: Guardian, Monday 30 Jan.]
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> If you spot anything that should be included next week, use the form below to tell us about it. Thanks this week to RG, Lester Mak, and Tony.

I Love number 9 😃