From the BBC-- Ten Things We Didn't Know Last Week

6 December 2013 Last updated at 12:39 ET

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10 things we didn't know last week

I found this damn interesting but I seriously wonder about two of these claims....for one, I am not sure about this being able to tell how tall someone is from the sound of their voice though I feel there is SOME truth to it, just intuitively or something....second, I don't find the "tongue twister" they list as being difficult at all --then it occurred to me to try to say it with an English accent and it WAS very hard to say repeatedly....one more difference between American and British English

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1. Men and women's brains are differently wired and the difference grows bigger after childhood.

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2. You can teach a wolf tricks just like a dog.
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3. Neanderthals were house-proud creatures, devoting separate spaces to tool-making, butchering animals and socialising.
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4. A children's TV show in Sweden has characters dressed as "poo-poo" and "wee-wee".
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5. Female lemon sharks go back to their birthplace to reproduce.
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6. The pope used to work as a bouncer.
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7. Monkeys in Latin America prefer eating the fruit of the Pouteria and Brosimum trees to bananas.
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8. You can tell a person is tall by just hearing their voice.
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9. Koalas evolved a vocal organ that allows them to produce a very low-pitched sound for mating.
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10. The hardest tongue twister is "pad kid poured curd pulled cold".
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