10 things we didn't know before the 34th week of 2009

1. iPhones are not yet sold in China.
2. Margaret Thatcher suffered one parliamentary defeat as prime minister - on Sunday trading laws.
3. English holidaymakers drink an average of eight alcoholic drinks a day.
4. The UK population grew more in 2008 than at any time since 1962.
5. And Germany's population is shrinking.
6. West Ham's stadium is really called the Boleyn Ground, not Upton Park.
7. The smell of cut grass makes people happy.
8. A pint glass lasts an average of only three months.
9. An Englishman sailed to the "New World" only two years after the first European is thought to have landed in Newfoundland.
10. Men in China cannot marry until aged 22.

 (Borrowed from the BBC)