10 things we didn't know last week
16:11 UK time, Friday, 28 January 2011
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Polar bears can swim for nine days.
2. Tony Blair never had a mobile phone as prime minister.
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3. JD Salinger was a big fan of Tim Henman.
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4. Prince Philip almost became a coal miner for a month.
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5. Social networks may date back as early as the 1970s.
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6. The kilogram doesn't weigh as much as it used to.
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7. Huskies can smell thin ice.
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8. Kelly Hoppen used to be Sienna Miller's stepmother.
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9. Many Kenyans think twins are cursed.
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10. Pigeons can smell their way home hundred of miles.
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