10 things we didn't know last week

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  • 16 October 2015
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1. People who like their coffee black are more likely to be psychopaths. 
2. Traditional societies sleep on average for six hours and 25 minutes. 
3. It was normal for women in 18th and 19th-century China to have two husbands.
4. American toddlers are shooting one person a week on average in 2015.
5. People from Glasgow have the sexiest accent in the UK, according to Americans.
6. The US still has not eradicated the plague.
7. China is home to more billionaires than the US.
8. Bees are attracted to caffeinated plants. 
9. The first humans to leave Africa went to China not Europe. 
10. People with tattoos are more aggressive and rebellious.
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