10 THINGS

10 things we didn't know last week!

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

1. The are 30,000 wild parakeets in London.More details

2. Alan Sugar is a big fan of Masterchef.

3. It's possible to map a 248-dimensional structure.More details

4. Harvesting rhubarb in candlelight helps preserve its flavour.More details

5. The Quakers invented the modern protest campaign - in calling for an end to the slave trade – deploying petitions, consumer boycotts, images, a logo and a slogan.More details

6. The Legal limit for flying a plane is 20mg of alcohol.More details

7. Martina Navratilova has spent four years secretly working as an artist.More details

8. NHS hospitals took more than £95m in car parking charges in 2004/2005.More details

9. Alcohol and tobacco are more "harmful" than cannabis, ecstasy and LSD according to a new ranking drawn up by the Lancet.More details

10. Tony Blair isn't a bad comedy actor, judging by his performance on Comic Relief.

Sources: 2 – the Independent, 21 March.
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