10 THINGS !

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

1. King Tut had buck teeth.
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2. Britons send as many text messages in a week now as they did in the whole of 1999.
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3. The defining measure for a kilogram is "Le Grand K", a cylinder of platinum and iridium held in Paris.

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4. Using camera traps to count tigers - differentiated by their stripe patterns - was pioneered in the 1920s by Englishman FW Champion.
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5. There are 29 "Labour and the Co-operative Party" MPs in Parliament, including Ed Balls.More details

6. The Italian Mafia have commandments.
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7. Gun ownership per person in Finland is the third highest in the world.
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8. Dinosaurs breathed like penguins.
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9. The brain can turn down its ability to see in order to listen to complex sounds like music.
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10. For every one millibar decrease in pressure the sea rises 1cm.
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BBC NEWS MAGAZINE.