100 Things We Didn't Know Last Year

gollum123 writes "The BBC news magazine is running a compilation of the interesting and sometimes downright unexpected facts that we did not know last year, but now know. some examples — There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts. Urban birds have developed a short, fast 'rap style' of singing, different from their rural counterparts. The lion costume in the film 'Wizard of Oz' was made from real lions. Online shoppers will only wait an average of four seconds for an internet page to load before giving up. Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles. For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs is the term for people who fear the number 666. The egg came first."

Comments

The egg came first is new news?

[BigGar']

Eggs were around a long time before chickens.

lion costume

[Anonymous Coward]

"The lion costume in the film 'Wizard of Oz' was made from real lions." This was in a documentary in the mid 90's. Maybe the BBC needs to watch more TV.

Least useful

[Atario]

Occupying Iraq?