codyg1985’s Think Tank

You can learn alot of stuff in 365 days. Thankfully, the BBC has compiled a list of 100 new things that have been learnt over the past year.

Here are some of the ones that caught my attention:

3. While it’s an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it’s not an offence to throw it over someone’s garden wall.

6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub’s toilets.

7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.

19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing “is equal to” in his equations. He chose the two lines because “noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle”.

23. In America it’s possible to subpoena a dog.

32. “Restaurant” is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.

52. You’re 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.

53. It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.

67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.

74. It takes a gallon of oil to make three fake fur coats.

78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.

89. Spanish Flu, the epidemic that killed 50 million people in 1918/9, was known as French Flu in Spain.

94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.

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