10 things we didn't know last week
15:43 UK time, Friday, 3 November 2006
1. John Prescott's now defunct Office of the Deputy Prime Minister spent £5,095 over the past four years on branded pens, carrier bags and note pads for exhibitions and events.
2. Spending on Halloween has risen ten-fold - from £12m to £120m in the UK, in five years.
3. Elephants can recognise their own reflection, something only before seen in humans, great apes and bottlenose dolphins.
4. Ten-pence is the going rate for clearing up a piece of chewing gum.
5. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
6. Twenty percent of the world's CCTV cameras are in the UK.
7. Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
8. Eighty-seven public servants earn more than Tony Blair's £183,932 salary.More details
9. The UK population grew at a rate of 500 per day last year as immigration out-stripped emigration.
10. During World War II, MI5 invited Daily Telegraph crossword winners to work as code-breakers at Bletchley Park. More details
[8. The Times, 1 November, 10. Daily Telegraph, 1 November.] Thanks to Paul Maplesden for sending the picture of 10 jellyfish at a San Francisco aquarium.
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