10 things we didn't know last week
- 21 August 2015
1. You can't watch Straight Outta Compton in Compton because it doesn't have any cinemas.
2. MI5 erroneously suspected novelist Doris Lessing of running a brothel.
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea owns 200,000 bees.
4. A collection of 1,500 cassettes found at the headquarters of senior al-Qaeda leaders included recordings by the Jewish Algerian singer-songwriter Enrico Macias.
5. People who eat while walking tend to consume more calories.
6. An asteroid will not collide with Earth between 15 and 28 September.
7. US Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders released a spoken-word folk album in 1987.
8. US Republican presidential contender Scott Walker acquired his bald spot by bumping his head while fixing a kitchen sink.
9. Successful chief executives tend to have wider faces.
10. David Cameron likes paprika Pringles.
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