shit we didnt know

[♫MysteriousMan♫]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4134329.stm
"100 things we didn't know this time last year"

7. The heat generated by a laptop, and the knees-together pose needed to balance it, can damage a man's fertility.

8. Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam.

19. The collective noun for rhinos is "crash".
^more people need to play Magic

22. George W Bush got the highest number of votes for president of any candidate in US history, in November 2004.
^hell yeah

23. John Kerry got the second highest number.
^shit

88. In the past decade, four people in the UK have died in cemetery accidents, crushed by falling tombstones.
^.......HAHAHAHAHA.

[Mark617]

what a great list...

31. Herrings break wind to communicate and keep the school together.

45. There is a world record for being able to squirt liquids out of a human eye. The existing record is 8.7 feet (2.65m), but a Turkish man claims to have broken the record with a 9.2 feet (2.8m) squirt.

47. A jiffy is 10 milliseconds in computer science terms.

[William]

hahah!

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.

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.

39. More Brits die each year falling from their hotel balcony than do in diving accidents, according to Foreign Office statistics.

49. Guests at the Queen's coronation in 1953 pilfered toilet paper from Westminster Abbey. "It was found early on Coronation Day, that much of the lavatory paper had been removed, and in future it will be necessary to take steps to prevent this," official records released this year reveal.

and i didnt get past 50...

[bob]

8. Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam.

how the hell do they find that out?