10 THINGS !

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

1. Superstitious people in rural India sometimes organise weddings to animals in the hope of warding off curses.
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2. Janet and John were named Alice and Jerry in the United States.
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3. Until the late 1990s, the RAF's nuclear bombs could be activated using a bicycle lock key.
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4. Qwerty is a regular on lists of most-popular passwords.
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5. Residents of Middlesbrough are 25% more likely to suffer from heart disease than the UK average.
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6. There is an average of 90 suicides a day in Japan.

7. Landfill rubbish sites in the UK cover in total an area of 109sq miles.
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8. Twelve per cent of people with no religion pray sometimes.
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9. Cats can be police constables.
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10. The next generation of chip will pack more than four hundred million transistors into an area the size of a postage stamp.
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