10 THINGS !

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

1. Sugar does not cause hyperactive behaviour.
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2. Oliver Twist was not hungry when he asked for more.
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3. Leonard Cohen's original Hallelujah has more than 80 verses.
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4. Sneezing can be a sign of sexual arousal.
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5. It's legal to serve legal papers by Facebook, in Australia.
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6. It's a bad idea to put out a chip pan fire with a wet tea towel.
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7. The world's oldest singer and actor is 105.
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8. Some villages in Wales still don't have mains electricity.
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9. Japan has its own version of the foot-measurement - called the kanejaku.
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10. The average global temperature is about 0.7C above pre-industrial times.
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BBC NEWS MAGAZINE.