December 29, 2006

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:

Zachary Davis said...

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"