BBC NEWS | Magazine | 100 things we didn't know this time last year

BBC News is running an article about "100 things we didn't know this time last year". Some are very interesting. My favorites are

6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
16. The London borough of Westminster has an average of 20 pieces of chewing gum for every square metre of pavement.
19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations.
23. In America it's possible to subpoena a dog.
27. Only in France and California are under 18s banned from using sunbeds.
32. "Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.
36. The average employee spends 14 working days a year on personal e-mails, phone calls and web browsing.
73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.
78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.
94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.

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