10 things we didn't know last week
17:37 UK time, Friday, 6 November 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Gordon Brown gave up a £2m pension on his first day in office
2. At peak times, 32,000 pedestrians cross Oxford Circus junction in one hour.
3. Lyrics from Jon Bon Jovi's new album are framed and hanging up in the White House.
4. Journalists visiting Sesame Street are banned from asking Bert and Ernie if they are gay.
5. The Â鶹Éç rejected Sesame Street in 1971 because it was "too authoritarian".
6. Elmo's favourite food is wasabi .
7. Tall men can have small parents.
8. Part-time veggies are called flexitarians.
9. A missing child must usually have been missing for at least two years to warrant an age progression image.
10. French babies cry with an accent.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Alan Chesterman for this week's picture of 10 gold rings.
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