Things You Didn't Know At This Time Last Year

I know you all are extremely intelligent (I mean, look, you read my blog)! I found these interesting and thought I'd share....

WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets. Who uses drugs in a toilet?!?!

One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed. I would believe it, I mean, have you ever been to Ikea? WOW!

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. Have you ever had rhubarb? It's amazing. IT looks like red celery. Eaten raw, it's got a tart taste, but when it's cooked, it's sweet.

Bosses at Madame Tussauds spent £10,000 separating the models of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston when they separated. It was the first time the museum had two people's waxworks joined together.

It's possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.

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

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.

There are an estimated 1,000 people in the UK in a persistent vegetative state.

Australians host barbecues at polling stations on general election days.

Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.

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

One in 18 people has a third nipple.



Just thought I'd share those with you. Hope you have a nice day!