Been a busy week, most of it spent overseas on business. So blogging hasn't been on top of the agenda. Which, though it smacks of laziness, means it's back-to-back '10 things we didn't know last week'...
- Princess Eugenie's first name is pronounced YOO-jenny rather than yoo-JAY-nee.
- British intelligence chiefs tried to guess Hitler's plans by studying his horoscope.
- The average midweek bedtime is between 10pm and 11pm.
- Two million e-mails are sent every minute in the UK.
- Jackie magazine was named after author Jacqueline Wilson, who was a teenage journalist there when it launched.
- The whitest place in England and Wales is Easington in County Durham.
- Prison pay is on average £9.60 a week.
- Zombies can't run because their ankles would snap.
- Latvia has the highest cigarette tax in Europe, at 80% of the price. The UK level is 77%.
- Households on average spend more on pets than they do on UK holidays.
(Source: BBC)
