The Top 100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year

• 18 years ago

• Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like “baby-talk in Portuguese”.
• The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
• Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine.
• More than 90% of plane crashes have survivors.
• Forty-one percent of English women have punched or kicked their partners, according to a study.
• The egg came first.
• In the 1960s, the CIA used to watch Mission Impossible to get ideas about spying.

I’m becoming a sucker for end of the year lists. You can see the entire Top 100 if you’re addicted too.