10 things we didn't know before the 29th week of 2008

1. Misuse of the Red Cross emblem is a breach of the Geneva Convention.
2. Boys cost £7,000 more to rear than girls during school years.
3. A baobab fruit has six times as much vitamin C, per gram, as an orange.
4. White Americans are 14% more likely than other ethnic groups to survive cancer.
5. The switch from coal gas to non-toxic North Sea gas has contributed to a fall in the number of suicides.
6. There are estimated to be more than 2,000 Esperanto speakers in the UK.
7. Chocolate poisons dogs.
8. Twelve countries, including the US, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Libya and Russia, ban travel and immigration for HIV-positive people.
9. Young teenagers are drinking less and consuming fewer drugs.
10. House prices are up.

(Borrowed from the BBC)