One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.

My favourites:

93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).

89. Spanish Flu, the epidemic that killed 50 million people in 1918/9, was known as French Flu in Spain.
[nahhhh, really?]

78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.

73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.
[how cute is this?]

62. MPs use communal hairbrushes in the washrooms of the Houses of Parliament.
[for Pete's sake...]

56. The Pyruvate Scale measures pungency in onions and garlic. It's named after the acid in onions which makes cooks cry when cutting them.

53. It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.

33. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has only been in an English pub once, to buy his wife cigarettes.

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".

32. "Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.

100 things we didn't know this time last year