10 things we didn't know before the 44th week of 2009

1. Gordon Brown gave up a £2m pension on his first day in office.
2. At peak times, 32,000 pedestrians cross Oxford Circus junction in one hour.
3. Lyrics from Jon Bon Jovi's new album are framed and hanging up in the White House.
4. Journalists visiting Sesame Street are banned from asking Bert and Ernie if they are gay.
5. The BBC rejected Sesame Street in 1971 because it was "too authoritarian".
6. Elmo's favourite food is wasabi.
7. Tall men can have small parents.
8. Part-time veggies are called flexitarians
9. A missing child must usually have been missing for at least two years to warrant an age progression image.
10. French babies cry with an accent.

 (Borrowed from the BBC)