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10 things we didn't know last week

15:42 UK time, Friday, 8 June 2007

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Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. It's 1999 in Ethiopia.

2. The Spanish national anthem has no words.

3. There are 1,200 exhumations every year in the UK, but not all of those are part of criminal cases.

4. There are 14 different spellings of Mohammed in the top 3,000 baby boy names in the UK, propelling it to number two just behind Jack.

5. Nearly seven out of 10 (69%) of adults are still in touch with at least one childhood friend.

6. Seb Coe is partially colour-blind.

7. Twenty-three billion jars and bottles have been recycled in the UK since the first bottle bank opened in 1977.

8. Unemployment is back up to 1979 levels.

9. Footage can be checked to see if it is harmful to people with epilepsy by a gadget called the Harding Flash and Pattern Analyser.

10. Tre Azam, fired this week from The Apprentice, had a near-fatal car crash 10 years ago. He still has steel plates in his back and pins in both legs.

(Sources, where items not linked: 6. Times, 6 June.)

Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Peter Harrison, Hove, for this week's picture of 10 deckchairs).

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