10 things we didn't know (catch up)

Because I've been away, and I know you wouldn't want to miss out...

10 things we didn't know before the 29th week of 2010

1. Twenty babies born in the UK since World War II have been named Adolf.
2. Thursday is the grumpiest day, according to research in the US.
3. In Brazil, a social networking site called Orkut has more members than Facebook and Twitter combined.
4. Beer can have an alcohol content of 55%.
5. Jokes can be protected by copyright, in theory.
6. Blood can be mixed with pulp to make a page in a book.
7. A sum of £650m can buy you about 7% of the world's cocoa.
8. Before 2008, prisoners were allowed to have fancy dress parties and comedy nights.
9. Black parents can have white, blond-haired children.
10. Tour de France etiquette dictates that cyclists should not overtake the leader if he suffers mechanical problems.

(Borrowed from the BBC)

10 things we didn't know before the 30th week of 2010

1. One in five UK women will not have children, many by choice.
2. Gooseberries have been in England since at least 1275, when the king shipped over plants from France to grow at the Tower of London.
3. International athletes coming to London for the 1948 Olympics had to bring their own towels.
4. And half the pigeons brought to the stadium to be released for the opening ceremony died in the heat.
5. A man thought to be Tokyo's oldest had, in fact, been dead for 30 years.
6. Dogs mimic their owners.
7. And one in three are obese.
8. Snooker world championships used to last a year.
9. One in 36 pound coins is fake.
10. The world's most ancient living creatures are a breed of shrimp which live in south-west Scotland.

(Borrowed from the BBC)

10 things we didn't know before the 31st week of 2010

1. Rotterdam is Europe's busiest port.
2. Beach huts in Scarborough cost nearly as much as a one-bedroom flat. 
3. Buttocks are hardest to tan.
4. Last year, Iceland became the first country with an openly gay head of state.
5. Middlesex was first documented in the Eighth Century.
6. Winston Churchill concealed a reported UFO sighting while prime minister because he feared it would cause mass panic and make people question religion.
7. One in five drivers killed in road accidents has some kind of drug in his body.
8. Hormones can affect shopping habits.
9. William, Alice and Robert are names the English adopted from the Normans. More details 10. Fourteen swimmers have been rescued from The Thames in the last six months.

(Borrowed from the BBC)