10 things we didn't know last week
17:05 UK time, Friday, 18 December 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. The Queen travels to Sandringham by scheduled train each Christmas.
2. The Moon has the coldest place in the Solar System measured by a spacecraft
3. About 3.8 million cheques were written in the UK every day last year.
4. Australian stingless bees immobilise intruding beetles by mummifying them in resin, wax and mud.
5. The Royal Mail's missed parcel cards are also known as "739" cards.
6. 748 million burgers are sold in the UK annually.
7. Women's touch is more sensitive than men's.
8. The Na'vi language spoken in James Cameron's new film Avatar took four years to write and develop.
9. Female spiders eat their mates despite them being nutritionally poor.
10. Milton Keynes central railway station appeared as a UN building in Superman IV.
Seen 10 things? Thanks to Hayley Salvo for this picture of 10 lanterns taken in Morocco.
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