100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year

1. Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like "baby-talk in Portuguese".
2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.
3. Urban birds have developed a short, fast "rap style" of singing, different from their rural counterparts.
4. Bristol is the least anti-social place in England, says the National Audit Office.
5. Standard-sized condoms are too big for most Indian men.
6. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
7. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.
8. Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated on another planet.
9. The Pope's been known to wear red Prada shoes.
10. Online shoppers will only wait an average of four seconds for an internet page to load before giving up.
11. Donald Rumsfeld was both the youngest and the oldest defence secretary in US history.
12. Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.
13. Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
14. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
15. More than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet, says a study.
16. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
17. More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
18. The brain is soft and gelatinous - its consistency is something between jelly and cooked pasta.

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