I Didn’t Know That!
Posted on Monday, January 1, 2007 by Frank Roche
Did you know that online shoppers won’t wait more than four seconds for a web page to load before bailing out? That the lion costume in The Wizard of OZ was made from real lions? That the majority of people who use subtitles on their TV sets are not hearing impaired?
The BBC just published 100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year. The three examples above are from the list. Intriguing reading. One last one: Did you know what Barbie’s full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts? Now you do.
Photo credit: ClaudeCF









