Each week BBC’s “the Magazine” picks out snippets from the news, and compiles them into 10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week list. They’ve put the lists from 2005 together and made a master list of 100 things we didn’t know this time last year.
Here’s a couple of snippets to encourage you to click through:
8. Devout Orthodox Jews are three times as likely to jaywalk as other people, according to an Israeli survey reported in the New Scientist. The researchers say it’s possibly because religious people have less fear of death.
41. Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street. (More details)
78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.
98. Nettles growing on land where bodies are buried will reach a foot higher than those growing elsewhere.
