10 Things....
Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience by BBCi.
1. Dogs with hair lips can end up with two noses.
2. Gabardine is a rival to modern, synthetic mountaineering clothes - being lighter, hardwearing and water-resistant.
3. Nearly five times as many people commit suicide in Japan as die in traffic accidents. In the UK, adult deaths by suicide outstrip all road traffic deaths by about 60%.
4. Children inherit a taste for meat and fish but acquire a liking, or loathing, for vegetables.
5. Private individuals can buy up parts of the Moon thanks to a loophole in the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty that simply forbade any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon.
6. Parents of toddlers spend an average of £406 a year on their child's clothing.
7. John Cleese flies from his home in Los Angeles to London to visit his dentist.
8. Clitoris derives its name from the ancient Greek word kleitoris, meaning "little hill".
9. A domestic cat can frighten a black bear to climb a tree.
10. Wrinkles can determine whether a smoker is more likely to develop lung disease - those with wrinkles have a five times higher risk of disease than those with smooth skin.
More details at the BBCi
1. Dogs with hair lips can end up with two noses.
2. Gabardine is a rival to modern, synthetic mountaineering clothes - being lighter, hardwearing and water-resistant.
3. Nearly five times as many people commit suicide in Japan as die in traffic accidents. In the UK, adult deaths by suicide outstrip all road traffic deaths by about 60%.
4. Children inherit a taste for meat and fish but acquire a liking, or loathing, for vegetables.
5. Private individuals can buy up parts of the Moon thanks to a loophole in the 1967 United Nations Outer Space Treaty that simply forbade any government from claiming a celestial resource such as the Moon.
6. Parents of toddlers spend an average of £406 a year on their child's clothing.
7. John Cleese flies from his home in Los Angeles to London to visit his dentist.
8. Clitoris derives its name from the ancient Greek word kleitoris, meaning "little hill".
9. A domestic cat can frighten a black bear to climb a tree.
10. Wrinkles can determine whether a smoker is more likely to develop lung disease - those with wrinkles have a five times higher risk of disease than those with smooth skin.
More details at the BBCi
posted by theGoose at 10:58:00 PM
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