10 things we didn't know before the 46th week of 2008

1. Avatars have sex.
2. Cocaine addiction has a gene.
3. Love handles shorten your life.
4. Barack and Michelle Obama have code names Renegade and Renaissance.
5. Germany, not China or the US, is the world's biggest exporter.
6. The QE2 does 49 feet to the gallon.
7. Monty Python's dead parrot sketch dates back to Ancient Greece.
8. Gary Glitter's I'm the Leader of the Gang was on the syllabus for GCSE music.
9. The song Two Little Boys was probably about the American Civil War.
10. Alastair Campbell plays the bagpipes.

(Borrowed from the BBC)