Ten things you don't need to know

The BBC magazine has started listing Ten Things We Didn't Know Last Week. Let's take a look at their list and offer a few thoughts of our own:

1. Nicolas Sarkozy collects stamps.

Isn't he busy enough?

2. Doodling aids memory.

While actually taking notes does the opposite, trust me.

3. Peanut allergies have trebled in the last decade.

So, judging by the press coverage, have incidents of peanut smuggling.

4. Wendy Richard was in Up Pompeii

This is a difficult one. I could say either a) Now she's in Up the Khyber or b) Now she's in Six Feet Under, but these would be tasteless remarks so instead I will just say c) Duh.

5. The biggest underground machine in the world mines salt in Cheshire.

a) That's their story and they're sticking with it. b) The badger population in Cheshire has a dangerously high rate of heart disease and the government must act now.

6. There are two types of intelligence.

As readers of this blog are all too aware.

7. About 1,000 people in the UK lose their voice box annually.

I cannot work out if these means that the same 1,000 people lose their voice box once a year, or if every year 1,000 new people lose their voice box. Either way, it's a good thing as it stops them calling phone-in radio shows.

8. Hitler spared Blackpool because he wanted to use it as his personal playground.

This explains absolutely everything.

9. Fleeces were part of the acid house scene in the 1980s.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to make me think, but so far it's nothing. So what?

10. Rio has a Sambadrome.

Then let's all go to Rio.