10 Things We Didn't Know Last Week

1. Tony Blair is a big fan of kung-fu film star Jackie Chan. His favourite movie is Rush Hour.

2. The Royal Mail uses 342 million rubber bands a year to bundle up letters. It has switched to using red bands so that they can be more easily seen when dropped.

3. Loo roll is the third biggest selling household commodity, with sales exceeding £11bn a year.

4. The average price of a Christmas card is 71p.

5. BBC props managers inject Germolene into Mars Bars in the EastEnders shop to stop them being eaten, says former star Sid Owen.

6. Guy Ritchie hates his wife's new album and prefers Irish folk music.

7. Binge drinking dates back at least to the 12th Century.

8. Actor Brian Forster (who played the second Chris Partridge in The Partridge Family), is the great-great-great grandson of Charles Dickens. He was born on 14 April 1960, 101 years to the day that A Tale of Two Cities was published

9. Former Nazi scientists helped put the first man on the Moon and their legacy helped the development of the B-2 Stealth bomber and Cruise missiles.

10. The ability to ignore information makes for a better memory.