Because I can't help myself

From the BBC's "100 things we didn't know last year":

6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine.
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
12. Until the 1940s rhubarb was considered a vegetable. It became a fruit when US customs officials, baffled by the foreign food, decided it should be classified according to the way it was eaten.
18. If all the Smarties eaten in one year were laid end to end it would equal almost 63,380 miles, more than two-and-a-half times around the Earth's equator.
23. In America it's possible to subpoena a dog.
39. Australians host barbecues at polling stations on general election days.
44. Rubber gloves could save you from lightning.
67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.
87. Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car.
92. British citizens, presumably, are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the UK National Lottery.
93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).
98. Nettles growing on land where bodies are buried will reach a foot higher than those growing elsewhere.
99. The Japanese word "chokuegambo" describes the wish that there were more designer-brand shops on a given street.

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