{"id":116,"date":"2006-01-09T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-09T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wp\/?p=116"},"modified":"2006-01-09T15:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-09T15:58:00","slug":"100-things-we-didnt-know-this-time-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/09\/100-things-we-didnt-know-this-time-last-year\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Things We Didn&#8217;t Know This Time Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"BBC\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BBC\">BBC<\/a> has published <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4566526.stm\" target=\"blank\">a list of 100 things we didn&#8217;t know this time last year<\/a>&#8230; what an exciting year for new discoveries 2005 was!<\/p>\n<p>Among my personal favourites are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number 6: <em><a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"WD-40\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wd40.com\">WD-40<\/a> dissolves cocaine &#8211; it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub&#8217;s toilets<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>Number 18: <em>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 <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Earth\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth\">Earth<\/a>&#8216;s equator<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li>Number 29: <em>When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Numbers 76 and 77: <em>The day when most suicides occurred in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United Kingdom\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\">UK<\/a> between 1993 and 2002 was 1 January, 2000. The only day in that time when no-one killed themselves was 16 March, 2001, the day <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Comic Relief\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comic_Relief\">Comic Relief<\/a> viewers saw <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jack Dee\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Dee\">Jack Dee<\/a> win <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Big Brother (UK)\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Brother_%28UK%29\">Celebrity Big Brother<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I already knew number 19&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And the fact that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tim Henman\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Henman\">Tim Henman<\/a> has a <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tennis court\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tennis_court\">tennis court<\/a> at his new home in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Oxfordshire\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oxfordshire\">Oxfordshire<\/a> which he has never used explains a lot&#8230; you&#8217;re supposed to practice mate.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/4566526.stm\" target=\"blank\">BBC News<\/a>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?w=1165\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC has published a list of 100 things we didn&#8217;t know this time last year&#8230; what an exciting year for new discoveries 2005 was! Among my personal favourites are Number 6: WD-40 dissolves cocaine &#8211; it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub&#8217;s toilets; Number 18: If all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,13,17],"tags":[82,83,286,380,421,740,1569,1583,1800,1805,2451,2517,2953,3014],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gibberish","category-humour","category-linkage","tag-82","tag-83","tag-arts","tag-bbc","tag-big-brother","tag-comic-relief","tag-jack-dee","tag-january","tag-linkage-2","tag-lists","tag-programs","tag-reality-based","tag-television","tag-tim-henman","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-1S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}