10 things we didn't know last week
15:55 UK time, Friday, 31 August 2012
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Chimpanzees have a secret handshake.
2. In Italian, there is a word for a summer hit song that is played everywhere you go - tormentone.
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3. The favourite number of Count von Count from the Muppets is 34,969.
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4. The writer Ian McEwan applied to work at MI5 and was rejected.
5. A hurricane can make the Mississippi River run backwards for 24 hours.
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6. Ferrets are used to test the flu virus.
7. Mitt Romney has a stake in Armitage Shanks.
8. Only Fools and Horses is popular in the Balkans.
9. There's a subcategory of homicide in the Philippines for so-called My Way killings - deaths which come in the wake of karaoke rows.
10. On two occasions Neil Armstrong could have been killed by malfunctioning Nasa machinery.
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