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11 Things We Didn't Know Last Week
By Steve Mencher, August 27, 2014 04:39 PM
News, discoveries and ... fun
![King Cobra, Poisonous Snake](https://aarp-content.brightspotcdn.com/b9/52/d9bad8495bbc542ef7547ca152bd/istock-000020762905medium-750.jpg)
1. A cobra can bite and kill someone even 20 minutes after its head is severed. (Learn more at Daily Mirror)
![blue-lobster](https://aarp-content.brightspotcdn.com/7b/89/ee2ac6e78ce5ed50c4e9c66f8052/blue-lobster.jpg)
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4. With the national unemployment rate at 6.2 percent in July, 20 U.S. cities are under 4 percent. (Learn more at Vox)
![gangi-italy](https://aarp-content.brightspotcdn.com/ac/c9/4943224c26a4dd7711e1e2faf18c/gangi-italy.jpg)
(Learn more at Wired)
![Pinball machine](https://aarp-content.brightspotcdn.com/4f/ff/c6f3d6cd664edc6e567eeed75489/1331882955-61c4a1dff1-b.jpg)
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(Learn more at Nature)
(Learn more at NPR)
![Elephant Eating Coffee](https://aarp-content.brightspotcdn.com/8a/6b/2450ebb6144dfafc527b40e54046/elephant-feeding-coffee-cherry.png)
![Spider](https://aarp-content.brightspotcdn.com/cf/ad/eb1fb338c1e35e6c560e2044085d/istock-000007023914small.jpg)
Bonus video: You may have seen the precocious "apparently" kid earlier in the summer. But have you heard him sing?
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Let us read 11 Things to you:
[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/165053114" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]
Images - Cobra: iStock/aletsix; Lobster: Flickr/Richard Wood; Italy: Wikimedia user Azotoliquido; Pinball: Flickr/Jenni Conrad; Elephant: Black Ivory Coffee promotional video screenshot; Spider: iStock/papkin
Music - AlexBeroza: Spinnin'; Songify This
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