10 things we didn't know before the 10th week of 2008

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'...

1. Princess Eugenie's first name is pronounced YOO-jenny rather than yoo-JAY-nee.
2. British intelligence chiefs tried to guess Hitler's plans by studying his horoscope.
3. The average midweek bedtime is between 10pm and 11pm.
4. Two million e-mails are sent every minute in the UK.
5. Jackie magazine was named after author Jacqueline Wilson, who was a teenage journalist there when it launched.
6. The whitest place in England and Wales is Easington in County Durham.
7. Prison pay is on average £9.60 a week.
8. Zombies can't run because their ankles would snap.
9. Latvia has the highest cigarette tax in Europe, at 80% of the price. The UK level is 77%.
10. Households on average spend more on pets than they do on UK holidays.

(Source: BBC)