Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience by BBCi.

1. "Nice" originally meant foolish or silly.
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2. More rural homes have broadband than urban dwellings.
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3. 27% of people have opened a bottle with their teeth.
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4. Britain has the fifth largest Jewish population in the world.
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5. Brain chemical oxytocin makes us trust strangers with money.
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6. Women drivers are three times more likely than men to suffer whiplash injuries if their car is hit from behind.
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7. Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is deaf in one ear.
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8. Skunks can be de-scented to make better pets.
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9. You can lessen jet lag by not eating.
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10. The "$100 laptop" now costs $75.
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