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5 things we learned this week

By Jon Connell of daily online newsletter

1 New York’s super-rich are ditching expensive designer bags for highquality counterfeits. The knock-off Hermès Birkin bags – so similar to the real deal that even most authenticators can’t spot the difference – are being traded at exclusive get-togethers. The fakes go for between one and ten per cent of the price of the genuine articles, which start at about £9,600.

2 Men tend to have longer, thicker eyelashes than women. Just as with other types of body hair, says Mel Magazine, it’s because of men’s higher testosterone levels. Although we might associate luscious, fluttering eyelashes with lust, they used to be a sign of chastity – the ancient Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder suggested that women’s lashes could fall out if they had too much sex.

3 David Tennant gets over stage fright by eating exactly three squares of chocolate during the interval. ‘Being on stage is a bit like jumping out of a plane,’ he tells the RSC’s podcast, Interval Drinks. ‘I try to nail down the things I can control.’

4 The Koreans have a word for the unique flavour each person making a recipe adds to it. Son-mat, literally ‘hand taste’, is most often used ‘to describe how no one can make food quite like your mum’, says QI on Twitter.

5 Space rockets are delaying flights in Florida. Blasting off creates so much debris that air traffic controllers stop jets flying within several hundred miles. When SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket took off in 2018, it affected 563 aircraft and caused more than 70 hours of delays.

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