The Toronto Star's 10 Things We Learned This Week

Some of the things we learned this week, according to the Toronto Star's weekly feature "10 Things We Learned This Week" includes:

The latest Guinness record to be adjudicated was the largest number of people dressed as Smurfs – there were 1,253 of them on July 18, in Castleblayney, Ireland.

British scientists who've been studying Blondie drummer Clem Burke and other rock and jazz percussionists for the past eight years say drummers have as much stamina as top-flight athletes.

The woman who played Judith Iscariot, the girlfriend of the messiah in Monty Python's Life of Brian, is the new mayor of Aberystwyth in Wales. Sue Jones-Davies promises to lift a three-decade local ban of the movie.


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