100 Things (New Year's Trivia)
Dec. 30th, 2005 02:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
octothorpeI caught this in my morning feed:
BBC NEWS | Magazine | 100 things we didn't know this time last year
Some of my faves:
5. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. "I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies," she says.
6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
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".
37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.
45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.
53. It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.
62. MPs use communal hairbrushes in the washrooms of the Houses of Parliament.
67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
71. Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay to be discharged from the US Army.
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.
92. You are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the National Lottery.
93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).
94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.
BBC NEWS | Magazine | 100 things we didn't know this time last year
Some of my faves:
5. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. "I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies," she says.
6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
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".
37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.
45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.
53. It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.
62. MPs use communal hairbrushes in the washrooms of the Houses of Parliament.
67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
71. Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay to be discharged from the US Army.
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.
92. You are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the National Lottery.
93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).
94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.
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Date: 2005-12-30 08:16 pm (UTC)44. Rubber gloves could save you from lightning.
Uh....
Date: 2005-12-30 09:32 pm (UTC)Note: I am the youngest of four.
Re: Uh....
Date: 2005-12-31 03:06 am (UTC)Note: I too am the youngest child... ;) Yet I'm monogamous... go fig!
Re: Uh....
Date: 2005-12-31 05:50 am (UTC)at least in this family.
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Date: 2005-12-31 05:51 am (UTC)*wave*
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Date: 2005-12-31 06:24 pm (UTC)Perhaps next time.
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Date: 2005-12-31 10:00 pm (UTC)*spontaneous jism explosion*
Happy New Year!
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Date: 2006-01-01 02:54 am (UTC)Mmmm cephalopod spunk ;-)