100 THINGS WE DIDN'T KNOW THIS TIME LAST YEAR
The BBC has a list for the Brits. Among the tidbits of new information accumulated last year:

2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.

4. An average record shop needs to sell at least two copies of a CD per year to make it worth stocking, according to Wired magazine.

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.

20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.

32. "Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.

36. The average employee spends 14 working days a year on personal e-mails, phone calls and web browsing, outside official breaks, according to employment analysts Captor.

42. Britain's smallest church, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, opens just once a year. It measures 4m by 3.6m and has one pew.

50. Only 36% of the world's newspapers are tabloid.

69. First-born children are less creative but more stable, while last-born are more promiscuous, says US research.

73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.

92. You are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the National Lottery.

94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.

100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".