10 things we didn’t know, from last weeks news, sliced, diced and processed for your convenience.
Courtesy of BBC Magazine Monitor, your recommended daily allowance of news and culture.
- Goats wear condoms.
- Big Lebowski fanatics call themselves “achievers”.
- And the f-word is used 281 times in the film.
- Sarah Palin is 10th cousin to Princess Diana.
- The word unbepissed means “not being urinated on”.
- Contrary to myth, the suicide rate in New York in the month following the Wall Street Crash in 1929 was lower than normal.
- The phrase dead cat bounce means a brief rally in the price of falling stock.
- Scottish poet Robert Burns was Bob Dylan’s muse.
- The annual cost of forest loss is more than the amount being lost in the banking crisis.
- Two New Testament books were left out of the modern Bible.
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