Well it seemed interesting last year, so I'll carry on...
- Police are not required to clean up a crime scene once evidence has been gathered.
- Networks of sensors are embedded in road surfaces to beam back information to councils on ice, rain, wind and temperatures.
- Japan's justice ministry surveys ex-cons on topics such as whether they liked the design of their prison-issue pyjamas.
- Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga's first name means "stinging nettle".
- Immunity to norovirus once you've had the bug that causes sudden vomiting doesn't last long.
- Britons are keenest on fast food, more so than even Americans.
- It's the first time in 50 years that neither the president nor his deputy will be seeking re-election in the United States.
- The Royal Marsden was the first hospital in the world to be dedicated to cancer when it was founded in 1851.
- Victorians believed smoking cleared the lungs - and struck off Dr Thomas Allinson, who founded the bakery of the same name, for describing nicotine as a "foul poison" and advocating healthy eating.
- Malaysian hotel rooms may be fitted with CCTV.
(Source: BBC)