The BBC has a list of 100 things that you learned this year. Here I’ve taken the top 10 and reprinted them, as you all know how much I love top ten lists :)

1. Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like “baby-talk in Portuguese”.

2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.

3. Urban birds have developed a short, fast “rap style” of singing, different from their rural counterparts.

4. Bristol is the least anti-social place in England, says the National Audit Office.

5. Standard-sized condoms are too big for most Indian men.

6. The late Alan “Fluff” Freeman, famous as a DJ, had trained as an opera singer.

7. The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.

8. There are 6.5 million sets of fingerprints on file in the UK.

9. Fathers tend to determine the height of their child, mothers their weight.

10. Panspermia is the idea that life on Earth originated on another planet.

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