10 things we learned in February

10 things we learned in February
ten things by elen lewis
  1. It takes a Parisian bistro about three weeks to get through a horse carcass.
  2. Sarah Greene used to bite Peter Duncan's ankles to distract him during Blue Peter cookery demonstrations.
  3. 8% of parents with two or more children admit they love one child more than the other. A quarter of them favour the older child because they could do more with him or her; 13% said it was because one child misbehaved more often.
  4. China's rapid industrialisation has been accompanied by a surge in cancer rates: between 1970-2004, deaths from cancer rose by 80%.
  5. 73% of women in London prefer to sleep naked or in their knickers. 87% of women in the North favour long-sleeved tops and pyjamas.
  6. The average US worker spends 60-80% of their time online doing things unrelated to their jobs.
  7. In North Korea, women are encouraged to choose from 18 officially sanctioned hairstyles.
  8. For every person in the US bitten by a shark, 25 get bitten by New Yorkers.
  9. Nearly 20m Norwegians (20% of the population) tuned in to watch a TV programme about firewood, which included eight hours of a fire burning in a fireplace.
  10. A Finnish radio station broadcasts news in Latin.

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