Ten Things of Credibility
- Twenty years ago a protest against what had been dubbed the poll tax erupted in violence and led to rioting in London's Trafalgar Square.
- It is said Leonardo da Vinci was fascinated by violent men.
- Peru's most famous archaeological site, Machu Picchu, has formally reopened after it was closed for two months.
- Defamation law can interfere with scientific debate, while some believe media scare stories are damaging the credibility of science.
- Japan is the biggest Moomin market outside Europe.
- A second, first edition Superman comic has sold at a US auction for over $1m.
- In Alfred Hitchcock's film "Psycho" chocolate sauce was used for blood in the infamous shower scene.
- Tesco, Britain's largest food retailer, will have sold 70 million hot cross buns by the end of the Easter weekend.
- Absences from work through sickness cost the British economy £10bn a year.
- Rumours spread as rapidly as flu.











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