10 things we didn't know last week
16:56 UK time, Friday, 7 August 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Wild orangutans use leaves to make their voices deeper and to scare predators.
2. University degrees in comedy exist.
3. European bison live in just one forest, on the Belarus-Poland border.
4. Men At Work's Down Under was inspired by Dame Edna's nephew.
5. Aesop's fable about a crow using stones to drink out of a pitcher is based on fact.
6. 17 million people in Britain aged over 15 do not use the internet.
7. Millions of people in Germany and Scandinavia watch an obscure British comedy sketch every New Year's Eve.
8. Last year Britons sent 80 billion texts.
9. Bristol is the fourth most visited city in England.
10. Director John Hughes sometimes wrote under a pseudonym taken from an Alexandre Dumas novel.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Catriona Morrison for this week's picture of 10 overalls in Amersfoot, Netherlands.
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