Did you know that

• The lion costume in the film Wizard of Oz was made from real lions.
• Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs is the term for people who fear the number 666
• The Pope’s been known to wear red Prada shoes.
• Each person sends an average of 55 greetings cards per year.
• Barbie’s full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts.
• For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality.
• Rainfall on the roof and gutters of a three-bed detached house can amount to 120,000 litres each year. (Everyone should install a rainwater tank!)
• In a fight between a polar bear and a lion, the polar bear would win.

For these and 92 other things that we now know, but didn’t at the start of 2006, check out the BBC’s Magazine Monitor site. They also have an archive of their weekly 10 things we didn’t know last week posts, from which the 100 list was drawn.