Ten Things: Did You Know...?

Only Swift and Adele sold a million albums in a single week since 2012/GETTY.

No nonsense news nuggets picked from the press.

1. Zara stores, previously under fire for alleged slave and child labour, is now finding labour complaints inside clothes in Turkey.
2. Indulgent grandparents may be having an adverse impact on their grandchildren's health, say researchers, while there is a firm that can 3D print human body parts.
3. Deaf singer Mandy Harvey made headlines around the world after being put straight through to the finals of America's Got Talent. But when she first took to the stage, she received death threats from within the deaf community for promoting a "hearing" activity.
4. Commuters in the UK are being urged to step in with "small talk" if they see vulnerable people near railway tracks, as part of a campaign to prevent suicide.
5. The UK Supreme Court has ruled that Scotland can set a minimum price for alcohol, which would help tackle Scotland's "unhealthy relationship with drink" by raising the price of cheap, high-strength alcohol. Meanwhile Iceland, which used to have a big teenage smoking, drinking and drug problem, managed to persuade its teens to give up drink and drugs.
6. Urban rap videos should be closely monitored and even removed from online platforms such as YouTube to save lives, British officials say.
7. Hip hop's Snoop Dogg and country music's Willie Nelson are friends.
8. After just four days, Taylor Swift has sold over a million albums in the US, more than any other artist this year. Only she and Adele have sold a million copies of any album in a seven-day frame since 2012.
9. Australians have overwhelmingly voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage in a historic poll.
10. Concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have broken records, which are now higher than they have been in at least 800,000 years, while Fiji is relocating low-lying coastal villages due to the impact of rising sea levels.

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