100 things...
we didn't know this time last year.
some of the more interesting trivia from the bbc news article of the same title. check out the whole list and related stories.
1. Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons.
3. Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges.
4. Crows apparently like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades.
9. Some pigeons follow roads and turn off at motorway junctions to navigate their way round.
19. The collective noun for rhinos is "crash".
26. The full names of Scooby Doo's Mystery Inc members are: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Scooby "Scoobert" Doo. Shaggy is actually Norville Rogers.
30. The Sydney Harbour Bridge contains just 16 nuts and bolts. The rest is held together by rivets, because it doesn't need to be dismantled.
31. Herrings break wind to communicate and keep the school together.
37. Although it's nearly 24 years since Jimmy Carter was US president, he still receives about 4,000 letters a month.
38. Yoda was based on Albert Einstein.
43. In 1911, Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa.
47. A "jiffy" is 10 milliseconds in computer science terms.
50. A tribe living in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has no words for numbers beyond two. The Piraha use "one" to mean one or roughly one, two means two, while any larger number is just "many".
51. The day after the atomic bomb exploded on Hiroshima, the banks re-opened. They had one customer, John Reader's book Cities recorded.
62. The founder of the Natural History Museum, Sir Richard Owen, was the man we have to thank for the word "dinosaur", literally meaning "terrible lizard".
66. An American girl aged between three and 11 has, on average, 10 Barbie dolls in her toy box.
68. Bill Clinton revealed in his autobiography that he didn't learn to ride a bike properly until he was 22.
70. And reports of UFOs have dwindled since the late 1990s. In the UK, sightings have gone from about 30 a week to almost zero; it's a trend echoed in the US and Norway.
73. Ducks have regional accents. London ducks shout out a rough quack to be heard above the urban din; those in the West Country make a quieter, softer sound.
79. Space is only 62 miles away. That's 100 kilometres.
81 . When people are in love, weird things happen. Men get more female hormones, and women get more male. Scientist Donatella Marazziti says it's as if nature wants to eliminate what can be different in men and women, perhaps to help the mating process.
83. There's no mobile reception at the top of the Gherkin in London - it's too high up at 40 storeys. The phone companies hadn't expected a tower so tall, and it's above the reception area.
87. One gigabyte of information - about a quarter of the memory of an iPod mini - is the equivalent of a pick-up truck load of paper.
91. Scientists have developed cress which changes from green to red when it comes near explosives - ideal for spotting landmines...
92. ...which is a good job as there are still about 100m undiscovered landmines in the world, just waiting to go off.
100. Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails while he was president.
some of the more interesting trivia from the bbc news article of the same title. check out the whole list and related stories.
1. Street brawlers sometimes arm themselves with potato peelers, according to the Home Office, which wants to make them banned weapons.
3. Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges.
4. Crows apparently like the taste of windscreen-wiper blades.
9. Some pigeons follow roads and turn off at motorway junctions to navigate their way round.
19. The collective noun for rhinos is "crash".
26. The full names of Scooby Doo's Mystery Inc members are: Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, Scooby "Scoobert" Doo. Shaggy is actually Norville Rogers.
30. The Sydney Harbour Bridge contains just 16 nuts and bolts. The rest is held together by rivets, because it doesn't need to be dismantled.
31. Herrings break wind to communicate and keep the school together.
37. Although it's nearly 24 years since Jimmy Carter was US president, he still receives about 4,000 letters a month.
38. Yoda was based on Albert Einstein.
43. In 1911, Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa.
47. A "jiffy" is 10 milliseconds in computer science terms.
50. A tribe living in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon rainforest has no words for numbers beyond two. The Piraha use "one" to mean one or roughly one, two means two, while any larger number is just "many".
51. The day after the atomic bomb exploded on Hiroshima, the banks re-opened. They had one customer, John Reader's book Cities recorded.
62. The founder of the Natural History Museum, Sir Richard Owen, was the man we have to thank for the word "dinosaur", literally meaning "terrible lizard".
66. An American girl aged between three and 11 has, on average, 10 Barbie dolls in her toy box.
68. Bill Clinton revealed in his autobiography that he didn't learn to ride a bike properly until he was 22.
70. And reports of UFOs have dwindled since the late 1990s. In the UK, sightings have gone from about 30 a week to almost zero; it's a trend echoed in the US and Norway.
73. Ducks have regional accents. London ducks shout out a rough quack to be heard above the urban din; those in the West Country make a quieter, softer sound.
79. Space is only 62 miles away. That's 100 kilometres.
81 . When people are in love, weird things happen. Men get more female hormones, and women get more male. Scientist Donatella Marazziti says it's as if nature wants to eliminate what can be different in men and women, perhaps to help the mating process.
83. There's no mobile reception at the top of the Gherkin in London - it's too high up at 40 storeys. The phone companies hadn't expected a tower so tall, and it's above the reception area.
87. One gigabyte of information - about a quarter of the memory of an iPod mini - is the equivalent of a pick-up truck load of paper.
91. Scientists have developed cress which changes from green to red when it comes near explosives - ideal for spotting landmines...
92. ...which is a good job as there are still about 100m undiscovered landmines in the world, just waiting to go off.
100. Bill Clinton sent just two e-mails while he was president.
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