10 THINGS !

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

1. Dogs can have blood of any type if it's just one transfusion, but cats need to be blood type matched.
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2. Trick or treating was first noted as arriving in England by the Times in 1986.
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3. The sculptor of the giant spider at the Tate is 95 and still working.
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4. Sniffer dogs can smell out a termite.
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5. Clams can get very, very old.
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6. Of the waste in UK landfills, 0.1 is plastic carrier bags.
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7. Dogs occasionally shoot their owners in the US.
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8. IP addresses will run out in 2010.
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9. People carrying the OR11H7P gene are hypersensitive to the smell of sweat.
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10. One fungal disease has made 40 frog species extinct since 1980.
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BBC MAGAZINE