10 things we didn't know before the 8th week of 2010

1. The average life of a web page these days is apparently somewhere between 44 and 77 days.
2. A "beryl" is a type of precious mineral.
3. A dentist in San Francisco is named Les Plack.
4. A piconewton is a millionth of the force that a grain of salt exerts when resting on a tabletop.
5. There are people in the UK called Justin Case, Barb Dwyer and Stan Still.
6. Computer game and movie character Lara Croft was created in Derby.
7. Elephants growl.
8. Johnny Cash's Guess Things Happen That Way was the 10 billionth track to be sold on iTunes.
9. The types of lasers that remove tattoos can also be used to clean up works of art.
10. Recent snow has left the UK's roads riddled with 1.6 million new potholes.

(Borrowed from the BBC)