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1. Serena Williams won a grand slam when she was 10 weeks pregnant.

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2. An Austrian town has had a resident hermit since 1664.

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3. Netflix subscribers have spent more than half a billion hours watching Adam Sandler films.

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4. Creative people physically see and process the world differently.

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5. "Dalek", "TARDIS" and "cybermen" are all in the Oxford English Dictionary.

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6. There are 20,000 objects larger than 10cm flying around Earth, which are big enough to cause "catastrophic damage".

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7. Cycling to work could "halve your cancer risk".

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8. Prince used to travel under the name Peter Bravestrong.

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9. Scientists have found live specimens of the rare giant shipworm for the first time.

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10. You can take a course studying Dolly Parton at the University of Tennessee.

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