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11 Things We Didn't Know Last Week
By Steve Mencher, September 10, 2014 05:38 PM
News, discoveries and ... fun
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1. The 14th Dalai Lama thinks he should be the last. (Learn more at Agence France-Presse)
2. The Golden Gate Bridge isn't just for humans. (Learn more at San Francisco Chronicle)
Important situation with the deer: pic.twitter.com/BdFvTrr8RC — Alex Bowles (@alexqgb) September 6, 2014
3. Thought to be a casualty of climate change, the Aldabra banded snail has reappeared in the Indian Ocean. (Learn more at Seychelles News Agency)
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![Soviet Space Cigarettes at Auction](https://aarp-content.brightspotcdn.com/72/dd/6820b1179c6530e4d82addf7b696/soviet-space-cigarettes.jpg)
5. It takes only a few hours for a virus to spread from a doorknob through an entire office. (Learn more at Medical News Today)
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6. Body fat and age have a greater effect on blood pressure than salt. (Learn more at American Journal of Hypertension)
7. Seventeen burial mounds and other ceremonial sites once surrounded Stonehenge. (Learn more at BBC)
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8. Hackers can steal your identity in 15 seconds or less. (Learn more at AARP)
9. Becoming a grandfather can sink a former U.S. president to the lowest person in the family pecking order. (Learn more at AARP)
![President Clinton And President George W. Bush Launch Presidential Leadership Scholars Program](https://aarp-content.brightspotcdn.com/01/6f/54a6dc639cf48a22f6a5facc146e/600-clinton-bush.jpg)
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10. Stimulating a specific gene in a fruit fly's intestine adds 30 percent to its life expectancy. (Learn more at Wired UK)
11. The new Batmobile looks a little like a Hummer with gull wing doors. (Learn more at The Verge)
Bonus Video: What happened at this ballgame in Boston will make you smile:
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Images — Dalai Lama: YouTube via Senator Harry Reid; Snail: Linked from Seychelles News Agency; Space cigarettes: Courtesy of Auctionata; Germ on doorknob: iStock/blamb; Stonehenge: Flickr/Howard Ignatius; Clinton and Bush: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Music – Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra plays Jimmie Lunceford and his Orchestra – Blue Blazes by Sy Oliver, Creative Commons, courtesy of Smithsonian Remix project.
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