10 things we didn't know last week
15:12 UK time, Friday, 15 March 2013
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Plants lace their nectar with caffeine to keep pollinators loyal.
2. Hemingway never used a Moleskine notebook.
3. You can attract beluga whales by singing underwater.
4. Shops get staff to strategically mess things up.
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5. The phallus-shaped Spartobranchus tenuis was an ancient relative of acorn worms.
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6. One of the Crossrail tunnelling machines is called 'Phyllis' after Phyllis Pearsall who produced the first A-Z.
7. On the net's most crime-ridden network - Spectranet in Nigeria - 62% of addresses controlled by the ISP send out spam.
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8. "Aunt" is the most popular pornographic search term in Syria.
9. Dominic West is a disciple of guru Babaji.
10. Big eyes contributed to the Neanderthals' demise.
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