100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year (BBC News)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4566526.stm

14. It's possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.

[skygazer]

1. That's a guy with way too much time on his hands n/t

[billyskank]

2. Number 3

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.

[dolo amber]

7. Yeah, that one struck me as

particularly British and odd... :D

[billyskank]

9. And if you throw your crap into someone else's garden

will they complain? More likely they'll simply tut loudly and put it in the trash. :)

[redqueen]

3. Ooh I just noticed your sig!

Rockin! :D

[dolo amber]

6. He's such a stud

:D

[redqueen]

10. He truly is teh r0xx0r.

:silly:

[terrya]

4. Interesting stuff!

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

Can we say....yikes?

[dolo amber]

5. We *can* say yikes

I'd also like to add "EWWWWWW!!" x(

[dolo amber]

8. I've never been more proud

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

:patriot:

[sakabatou]

11. Hee hee

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.
23. In America it's possible to subpoena a dog.
27. Only in France and California are under 18s banned from using sunbeds.
37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.
61. You can bet on your own death.
65. Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, had a hand in creating the Klingon language that was used in the movies, and which Shakespeare plays were subsequently translated into.
78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.
87. Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car.
88. A single "mother" spud from southern Peru gave rise to all the varieties of potato eaten today, scientists have learned.
94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.