10 things we didn't know last week
15:06 UK time, Friday, 3 July 2009
Snippets from the week's news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
1. Fred Perry was also table tennis world champion.
2. Mrs Slocombe's first name was Betty.
3. The UK is developing a quarter of the world's wave technologies.
4. Press-ups come in many guises, such as the "seal", "frog" and "donkey-kick".
5. The keffiyeh, a chequered scarf worn mostly by Arab men, and made famous by Yasser Arafat, is now mostly made in China.
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6. Vegetarians are generally less likely than meat eaters to develop cancer.
7. The Duke of Kent requested that players no longer bow to the royal box at Wimbledon, in 2003.
8. Richard and Judy did not pick the books that featured in their book club.
9. Michael Jackson patented one item - the special shoes he used in the stage version of Smooth Criminal.
10. Saddam Hussein once hired the James Bond director, Terence Young, to make a promotional Iraqi film.
Seen 10 things? . Thanks to Vic Barton-Walderstadt from Welwyn Garden City for this week's picture of 10 bales of hay near St Albans.
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