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10 things we didn't know last week
...2. Selfies have killed more people than shark attacks so far in 2015.
3. Lies are more convincing when the person telling them needs to urinate.
4. Napoleon's daily shopping list during his exile on St Helena included 42 eggs, 68lb of bread, 31 bottles of Cape wine, 10 bottles of claret, three bottles of "malt liquor", three bottles of cider and a bottle of champagne...
7. An as-yet-unnamed species of dinosaur that lived in what is now Montana looked like "a fat pony".
9. Scots have 421 words for snow...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-34347668