100 Things

The BBC has compiled a list of 100 Things we did not know this time last year.

Here are some good ones...

Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.

An average record shop needs to sell at least two copies of a CD per year to make it worth stocking, according to Wired magazine.

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

Devout Orthodox Jews are three times as likely to jaywalk as other people, according to an Israeli survey reported in the New Scientist. The researchers say it's possibly because religious people have less fear of death.

One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.

The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.

In America it's possible to subpoena a dog.

When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered.

"Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.

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

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's home number is listed by directory inquiries.

The hotter it is, the more difficult it is for aeroplanes to take off. Air passengers in Nevada, where temperatures have reached 120F, have been told they can't fly.

First-born children are less creative but more stable, while last-born are more promiscuous, says US research.

One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.

One in 18 people has a third nipple.

Bill Gates does not have an iPod.