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10 things we didn't know last week

16:57 UK time, Friday, 21 January 2011

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.

1. Princess Diana had two wedding dresses.
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2. President Kennedy's famous line "Do not ask..." was inspired by the headmaster of his prep school.
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3. Fourteen-year-olds build successful iTunes apps.
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4. Justin Webb's father was a Â鶹Éç newsreader.
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5. "Filthy lucre" and at least 256 other distinct phrases from the King James Bible are in modern English idiom.
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6. There have been a number of suggested 13th signs of the Zodiac over the years.
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7. Phone books are getting thinner.
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8. Birds make "No trespassing" signs.
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9. Smoking damages the body in minutes.
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10. Chess playing stimulates different brain activity.
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