10 things we didn't know last week!
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
Bees act in a similar way to serial killers.
Liz Taylor has broken her back five times.
Lake Baikal in Russia holds about a fifth of the world's fresh water.
The blank stickers for visa stamps are called vignettes .
Dyslexics can find it particularly difficult to learn the piano.
Van Gogh often reused canvasses to save money.
Seals can naviagate from the position of the stars.
Mick Jagger's officially a pensioner.
Being single in middle age can increase your risk of dementia.
In a drinking contest between a pen-tailed tree-shrew and a human, the former would win.
From the BBC news Magazine.
Recent Comments
so grateful to be Mormon said (2 months ago)
hi there ... yes, wild, i learned about the bee/serial killer thing, too, this week. i thought that was very fascinating ... but crime drama. law/order, forensics stuff is very fascinating to me, so i perked right up. great day to you, kathleenybeany
heatherd said (4 months ago)
Hmmm... Fascinated by the seals' navigational abilities, slightly concerned about the bees... and wondering how far off we can set that "middle-age" demarcation (and thinking that dementia would just about seal the deal on being single!)
PandoraWilde said (4 months ago)
Heehee, don't you wonder where they come up with some of this stuff? I did know about Van Gogh reusing canvasses, but I can't remember where I read it. I remember most of what I read but not always where it was.
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