Things we didn't know over the last 3 weeks

Because I've been on hols. So time for an omnibus catch up...

Week 29

1. Winston Churchill's wartime command bunker was not bomb-proof.
2. David Beckham likes wine tasting.
3. The popular saying "finders keepers, losers weepers" dates back to the 19th Century when it was first recorded as "No halfers-findee keepee, lossee seekee".
4. Football score announcer James Alexander Gordon suffered from slurred speech as a child.
5. It's always "esq" and never "esquire" as a written honorific.
6. Until being revamped this week, the Bill's theme tune was called Overkill.
7. The first known maize maze was in Pennsylvania in 1993.
8. The UK's oldest working TV set is from 1936.
9. Before the 20th Century, classical music audiences clapped between the movements. Now it's not the done thing.
10. Toucans use their large bills to keep cool.

(Borrowed from the BBC)

Week 30

1. Stoke City were huge in Norway in the 80s.
2. A third of England's coastline is inaccessible.
3. Police officers are not required to be able to swim.
4. 10 million people drive to work every day.
5. The dye used in blue M&Ms can help mend spinal injuries.
6. Poverty, as measured by the government, can decline during a recession.
7. Broadband speed is decided before the signal even leaves the exchange
8. Robert Browning used the T-word while thinking it was an item of clothing for a nun.
9. Chimpanzees are biologically programmed to appreciate pleasant music.
10. Bees warn other bees about flowers where dangers can be expected.

(Borrowed from the BBC)

Week 31

1. Wild orangutans use leaves to make their voices deeper and to scare predators.
2. University degrees in comedy exist.
3. European bison live in just one forest, on the Belarus-Poland border.
4. Men At Work's Down Under was inspired by Dame Edna's nephew.
5. Aesop's fable about a crow using stones to drink out of a pitcher is based on fact.
6. 17 million people in Britain aged over 15 do not use the internet.
7. Millions of people in Germany and Scandinavia watch an obscure British comedy sketch every New Year's Eve.
8. Last year Britons sent 80 billion texts.
9. Bristol is the fourth most visited city in England.
10. Director John Hughes sometimes wrote under a pseudonym taken from an Alexandre Dumas novel.

(Borrowed from the BBC)