All the useless (or not so useless) information we don't need to know about. But heck, if the conversation sucks, pull out one of these babies. I'm telling you -- works better than alcohol.

100 Things We Didn't Know This Time Last Year
(BTW, this is from the BBC, ie. Europe. Keep that in mind when reading #41.)

Some personal favourites:

8. Devout Orthodox Jews are three times as likely to jaywalk as other people.
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
18. If all the Smarties eaten in one year were laid end to end it would equal almost 63,380 miles, more than two-and-a-half times around the Earth's equator.
32. "Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.
35. The name Lego came from two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". It also means "I put together" in Latin.
59. Oliver Twist is very popular in China, where its title is translated as Foggy City Orphan.
78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.
87. Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car.