This list from the BBC is pretty cool. It’s 100 things that we didn’t know until this year and the related article. Some interesting ones:

11. Astronauts wear nappies during launch and re-entry because they can’t stop what they’re doing should they need to urinate.

31. There is mobile phone reception from the summit of Mount Everest.

48. You can be arrested for using someone’s wi-fi network without permission.

55. Books used to be bound in human skin.

57. Sleeping on the job is tolerated in Japanese work culture, as long as you remain upright and obey certain other rules. It’s called inemuri.

70. IP addresses will run out in 2010.

76. George Clooney and Pierce Brosnan have had Bell’s Palsy – a nerve condition that can result in paralysis on one side of the face.

85. A 23.8lb baby was born in the US in 1879, but it only survived 11 hours.