- A mother's diet at conception influences the gender of her baby.
- Elvis visited Britain.
- Gordon Brown did not send a Christmas card to Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel or Russia's outgoing president, Vladimir Putin.
- Staff at the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop were only offered six-month contracts when it opened 50 years ago, because the corporation feared the work would drive them mad.
- There are 109 journeys between London's Tube stations that are quicker to walk.
- Astronauts at the International Space Station must spend two hours a day exercising their legs.
- The language of space is English.
- The UK's most valuable tree is the plane.
- Children are more likely to injure themselves falling out of bed than out of a tree.
- A woman's chances of quitting smoking is linked to her hormones.
(Source: BBC)