If..Else Log

BBC News compile their top 100 nuggets of wisdom from their weekly 10 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Week:

3. While it's an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it's not an offence to throw it over someone's garden wall.

6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.

12. 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.

14. 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.

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".

23. 23. In America it's possible to subpoena a dog.

52. You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat

67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.

73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.

98. Nettles growing on land where bodies are buried will reach a foot higher than those growing elsewhere.

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