Ten Things: Did You Know...?
Nimble, nutty and naff news nuggets picked from the press.
- A man sleeping rough on the streets of Glasgow waited hours in the rain to guard a stranger’s £450 and stop it from being stolen.
- A power cut at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson international airport on Sunday led to a partial shut-down, affecting tens of thousands of people. The airport is the world's busiest, handling more than 250,000 passengers and almost 2,500 flights every day.
- World 10,000m champion Sir Mo Farah has been voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017. The 34-year-old, a four-time Olympic champion, won his third successive world 10,000m gold medal in London in August - despite almost falling twice late in the race.
- The head of the UN's watchdog for human rights across the world, is determined that the perpetrators of the horrors committed against the Rohingya face justice, and doesn't rule out the possibility that civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi and the head of the armed forces Gen Aung Min Hlaing, could find themselves in the dock on genocide charges some time in the future.
- The family of an Iraqi beauty queen has reportedly been forced to flee the country in the face of death threats after the young model posed for a selfie with her counterpart from Israel.
- Battlestar Galactica star Nicki Clyne is said to belong to a sex cult known as the DOS - a sinister organisation that brands its members with the initials of their leader, Keith Raniere.
- Sexual abuse and harassment is "endemic" in the music industry, with "dangerous men" abusing their power, but many are too scared to share their stories, for fear they would never work in the industry again.
- A new website called Rotten Apples provides a database users can search to find out if cast members, screenwriters, executive producers, or directors on specific projects have been attached to sexual misconduct.
- Gwynne Owen Evans, who was hanged in 1964 at the age of 24, was one of the last two men hanged in Britain - and possibly wrongly convicted of murder.
- Tens of thousands of people may be at increased risk of dying early from heart attacks and strokes by misusing anabolic steroids, according to doctors.












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