2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.
6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.
7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
14. It's possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.
15. Lionesses like their males to be deep brunettes.
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20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.
22. The length of a man's fingers can reveal how physically aggressive he is, scientists say.
35. The name Lego came from two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". It also means "I put together" in Latin.
37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.
43. The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units.
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45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.
52. You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
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56. The Pyruvate Scale measures pungency in onions and garlic. It's named after the acid in onions which makes cooks cry when cutting them.
67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
71. Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay to be discharged from the US Army.
78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.
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90. Ordinary - not avian - flu kills about 12,000 people in the UK every winter.
93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).
94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.
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