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The BBC has compiled a list of 100 things we didn’t know last year.  Here are some of my favorites:

• 2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.
• 12. The Pope’s been known to wear red Prada shoes.
• 31. The Mona Lisa used to hang on the wall of Napoleon’s bedroom.
• 57. The word “time” is the most common noun in the English language, according to the latest Oxford dictionary.
• 69. Humans were first infected with the HIV virus in the 1930s
• 100. In the 1960s, the CIA used to watch Mission Impossible to get ideas about spying.