10 THINGS !

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

1. It's 1999 in Ethiopia.More details

2. The Spanish national anthem has no words.More details

3. There are 1,200 exhumations every year in the UK, but not all of those are part of criminal cases.More details

4. There are 14 different spellings of Mohammed in the top 3,000 baby boy names in the UK, propelling it to number two just behind Jack. More details

5. Nearly seven out of 10 (69%) of adults are still in touch with at least one childhood friend.More details

6. Seb Coe is partially colour-blind.
7. Twenty-three billion jars and bottles have been recycled in the UK since the first bottle bank opened in 1977.More details

8. Unemployment is back up to 1979 levels.More details

9. Footage can be checked to see if it is harmful to people with epilepsy by a gadget called the Harding Flash and Pattern Analyser.More details

10. Tre Azam, fired this week from The Apprentice, had a near-fatal car crash 10 years ago. He still has steel plates in his back and pins in both legs.More details

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