10 Things

Some of the 10 Things you didn't know this week...

4. A knowledge of just 100 words would allow you to understand half of any book, even adult fiction, researchers at Warwick University say.

5. Sleep deprivation can make you hear police cars. Ben Fogle, currently rowing across the Atlantic with James Cracknell, reports experiencing just such a phenomenon.

8. A collective noun for a group of jellyfish is a "smack".


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