a list of things we didn't know

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(Lifted from here.)

9. The energy used to build an average Victorian terrace house would be enough to send a car round the Earth five times, says English Heritage.
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".
35. The name Lego came from two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". It also means "I put together" in Latin.
52. You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
53. It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.
73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree. {Awww.}
75. Each successive monarch faces in a different direction on British coins.
78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.
87. Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car.

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