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Saturday 3 September 2011

10 things we didn't know last week

Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Harrogate is the only postcode in Britain without a Tesco store.


2. Coral could be the key to stopping sunburn.


3. We nearly always pick items from the middle shelf in supermarkets.


4. A German city has started taxing prostitutes by installing a ticket machine.


5. An officially hot day in the UK - as classified by the Met Office - is when temperatures reach 30C.


6. Domino's pizza chain is planning to open a restaurant on the moon.


7. In 1941 the government in the UK wanted to know how many bras women owned.


8. The first fluorescent clothing was made from the inventor's wife's wedding dress.


9. The world's atmosphere is worth £4.3 quadrillion, going off the air we breathe in and the price of CO2


10. Britain has 800 major self-storage units, the same as the rest of Europe put together.


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