2006: The Year of Useless Trivia
BBC presents 100 things we didn't know last year, such as:
#3. Urban birds have developed rap, much to the chagrin of their suburban parents.
#5. Most standard-sized condoms are too big for Indian men.
#7. Actual lions were harmed in the making of the Lion costume in the Wizard of Oz.
#23. More than one in eight Americans show signs of internet addiction.
#47. TV is a painkiller.
#60. The clitoris is from the ancient Greek word kleitoris, meaning "little hill"
#68. The egg came first. Chicken is pissed.
#80. Camel milk, a popular beverage in Arab nations, has ten times more iron than the bovine draft.
#92. If a polar bear and a lion ever get into a fight, the polar bear would kick that lion's ass.

1 comment:
key quotes from the rappin' birds article:
"There are an estimated 1.7 million great tit pairs in the UK"
"The research focused on great tits in ten major European cities"
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