10 things we didn't know last week News snippets

Sliced and diced for your convenience Published duration 28 November 2014

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1. There is a brown bear living at the Chernobyl site.

2. Beer is less likely to slosh than coffee, and Guinness is easiest of all to transport.

3. A copy of Shakespeare's First Folio - one of only 230 to still exist - lay unrecognised for 200 years in a library at Saint-Omer in northern France.

4. Joni Mitchell stopped a biopic of her life, starring Taylor Swift, from being made.

5. Vegan mushroom gravy is an unusually popular Thanksgiving search term in the US state of Oregon.

6. Dogs turn their heads to left or right depending on whether they are listening for verbal content or intonation.

7. Sir John Gielgud wrote the script for a gay porn film.

8. Cat appears on traditional Christmas menus in some areas of Switzerland.

9. People in positions of power are more likely to have higher pitched voices.

10. Hillary Clinton's backstage demands include diet ginger ale, crudites, hummus and sliced fruit.

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