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Det er tida for å oppsummere året som gikk, og noen gjør det på mer interessante måter enn andre, for eksempel BBCs quiz med et heller mørkt tema og 100 things we didn’t know last year. Noen favoritter:

Coco Chanel started the trend for sun tans in 1923 when she got accidentally burnt on a cruise.

Cows can have regional accents, says a professor of phonetics, after studying cattle in Somerset.

Publishers have coined the term “Brownsploitation” for the rash of books that have sprung up in the wake of Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code blockbuster.

George Bush’s personal highlight of his presidency is catching a 7.5lb (3.4kg) perch.

Britain is still paying off debts that predate the Napoleonic wars because it’s cheaper to do so than buy back the bonds on which they are based.