Something from the ppl at BBC UK.
There's 100 of them but I'll list the first 10:
1. The UK's first mobile phone call was made 20 years ago this
year, when Ernie Wise rang the Vodafone head office, which was then
above a curry shop in Newbury.
2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born
in England and Wales.
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.
4. 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.
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.
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.
8. 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.
9. The energy used to build an average Victorian terrace house
would be enough to send a car round the Earth five times, says
English Heritage.
10. Humans can be born suffering from a rare condition known as
"sirenomelia" or "mermaid syndrome", in which the legs are fused
together to resemble the tail of a fish.
See the rest of the 90 things HERE.
