Another list of 100 things we didn't know this time last year

Things like:

• Just 20 words make up a third of teenagers' everyday speech.
• Standard-sized condoms are too big for most Indian men.
• Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
• Just one cow gives off enough harmful methane gas in a single day to fill around 400 litre bottles.
• More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
• The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
• Red Buttons - real name Aaron Chwatt - took his surname from the nickname for hotel porters, a job he did in his teens.
• The clitoris derives its name from the ancient Greek word kleitoris, meaning "little hill".
• The egg came first.

The whole list

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