Twenty Things: Did You Know...?

British PM Theresa May scolds Trump for terror tweets/GETTY.

Notorious news nuggets picked from the press.

1. Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC's first female political editor, has needed a bodyguard.
2. Tunisia, which is 99% Muslim, is viewed as one of the most progressive Arab countries in terms of women's rights.
3. Death metal group Decapitated have been arrested in LA after being accused of holding a woman against her will following a gig in Washington State.
4. The entire police force in part of the Philippine capital is to be relieved of duty, after the controversial deaths of three teenagers, while four Indian policemen have been arrested for trying to help guru Gurmeet Ram Rahim escape after he was convicted of rape last month.
5. Theresa Tolmie-McGrane has described more than a decade of physical, sexual and mental abuse at the hands of Catholic nuns.
6. A Swedish politician of the Left Party has revealed on Facebook that he was raped by a knife-wielding right-wing attacker because of his political leanings.
7. Donald Trump has repeated the controversial argument that "both sides" were at fault in white supremacist violence last month in Charlottesville, where a woman was killed by his followers.
8. After first announcing Trump was abolishing the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) programme and then appearing to backtrack by negotiating with the Democrats, his disaffected supporters have posted social media videos of themselves burning his "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) hats.
9. The country that took in the most refugees in the world last year was Uganda. It is said to have one of the most generous refugee policies in the world, even giving new arrivals their own land. Meanwhile, life in a north Italy migrant camp is cramped. Couples sleep eight to a tent, with only hanging sheets for privacy.
10. The Tanna tribe have worshipped Prince Philip as a god since the ‘60s and ‘70s. So, as a gift, they sent him a penis sheath.
11. US federal law bans government employees from accepting any gift from a foreign government valued at more than $390.
12. The digital divide separating developed and developing nations is in danger of becoming a chasm, warns a UN report.
13. Saturn's Cassini spacecraft has been destroyed to prevent it crashing into and contaminating the moons Titan or Enceladus, which could host alien microbial life.
14. When North Korea sends missiles across Japan into the Pacific, they fly though international airspace - above and past civilian aircrafts.
15. A Ryanair flight from Stansted airport to Copenhagen had to perform an emergency landing after the plane lost one of its wheels after take-off.
16. London Underground passengers have been hurt after an explosion on a District Line train in south-west London, which is being treated as a terror incident. In the UK there have been 379 arrests for terrorism-related offences since June 2017.
17. A British man has died in Sri Lanka after being attacked by a crocodile, his employer has confirmed.
18. A puppy bit off more than he could chew when he raided his owner's biscuit jar and ended up with his head stuck inside it.
19. Posting on Facebook could send you to jail.
20. Actress Jennifer Lawrence hates hotel life.

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