Things We Learned
From BBC News: 100 things we didn't know this time last year. A few examples:
* Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges.
* Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam.
* Bob Dylan originally planned to use his first two given names, Robert Allen, as his stage name, because it sounded like the name of a Scottish king. After he saw some Dylan Thomas poems, he chose Dylan as his new surname instead.
* In 1911, Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa.
* Britons throw away enough rubbish every hour to fill the Royal Albert Hall.
* More than one billion birds crash into buildings in the US every year. Mirrored office blocks are a particular hazard.
* Brussels sprouts have three times as much vitamin C as oranges.
* Brazilians are the nationality most likely to read spam.
* Bob Dylan originally planned to use his first two given names, Robert Allen, as his stage name, because it sounded like the name of a Scottish king. After he saw some Dylan Thomas poems, he chose Dylan as his new surname instead.
* In 1911, Pablo Picasso was one of the suspects arrested for the theft of the Mona Lisa.
* Britons throw away enough rubbish every hour to fill the Royal Albert Hall.
* More than one billion birds crash into buildings in the US every year. Mirrored office blocks are a particular hazard.
posted by O.marian at 17:04
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