10 things we didn't know this time last week

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Snippets harvested from the week's news, chopped, sliced and diced for your weekend convenience.

1. Parliamentary candidates can stand in more than one constituency at the same time.
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2. Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street.
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3. The British buy almost twice as many celebrity magazines a week per capita as the Americans.

4. Rising Hollywood star Keira Knightley once appeared in ITV's the Bill.
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5. The number of the Antichrist is not 666 but 616, according to a fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, discovered in Egypt.

6. Stevie Wonder's real first name is not Stephen but Stevland.

7. Sky's political editor Adam Boulton doesn't vote, and hasn't done since 1979.

8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie took £4.2m at the UK box office over the bank holiday weekend, mirroring its "answer to life, the universe and everything" - 42.
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9. The combined advertising revenues of Google and Yahoo! are this year predicted to outstrip those of US TV networks ABC, CBS and NBC put together, according to Advertising Age magazine.

10. Britain's smallest church, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, opens just once a year. It measures 4m by 3.6m and has one pew.
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