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51 Almost half of us, 48 per cent, are now ex-directory.

52 Late US comic Red Buttons took his name from the nickname for hotel porters as he was one inhis teens.

53 The CND symbol incorporates the semaphore letters for N and D for nuclear and disarmament.

54 There are 60 streets in the UK with the name Acacia Avenue.

55 Mortgage repayments now swallow up an average of 42 per cent of our take-home pay.

56 The latest Oxford dictionary says the word 'time' is the most common noun in the English language.

57 A university study found that 41 per cent of English women have punched or kicked their partners.

58 Dogs with a harelip can end up with two noses - just like a bull terrier handed in to police in Newcastle.

59 The clitoris derives its name from the ancient Greek word kleitoris, meaning 'little hill'.

60 A domestic cat can scare a black bear up a tree, or at least Jack the New Jersey tabby cat can.

61 A project ranking surnames by social status found a third of us have aname posher than Windsor.

62 The Downing Street garden is officially classed as a royal park.

63 Someone with a fear of the number 666 is called a hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiac.

64 A football becomes easier to control in the air if it has more panels and therefore more seams.

65 A quarter of smokers think handrolled tobacco is safer than cigarettes. It isn't.

66 Music can help reduce chronic pain by more than a fifth.

67 The egg came before the chicken, according to three experts who looked at the evidence.

68 The HIV virus first infected humans in the Thirties when chimpanzee hunters caught it.

69 Sir Paul McCartney isn't Britain's richest music millionaire. Zomba Record founder Clive Calder wins with ?1.3billion.

70 The books cashing in on the Da Vinci Code have been termed 'Brownsploitation' by publishers.

71 A university study claims teenagers are better behaved now than in 1985 concerning drugs, drink and sex.

72 President Bush told a newspaper his favourite moment since taking power was catching a 7.5lb fish.

73 Britain still pays interest on debts predating the Napoleonic Wars.

74 People in the UK eat five billion apples a year, 83 per person.

75 The Bhutan government base policies on the concept of Gross National Happiness. Things such as tobacco are banned.

76 The proper name for a metal detector enthusiast is a 'deterctorist'.

77 Labour spent ?299.63 on Star Trek outfits for the last election. The Tories spent ?1,269 on groundhog costumes.

78 The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.

79 Camel's milk has 10 times the iron of cow's milk, which could be why it's drunk in Arab countries.

80 There are more broadband users in Iceland per head of population than anywhere in the world.

81 There are 2.5million rodent-owning households in Britain.

82 Up to 120,000 litres of rain water falls on the average three-bedroom detached house in a year.

83 Thinking about your muscles can make them stronger, but you still need to be exercising at the time.

84 Until recently, French girls could get married at 15, but boys had to wait until 18. Now it's 18 for both.

85 The TV subtitles are used by six million people who don't have any hearing problems.

86 Teenage goths aspire to middleclass values and are likely to become doctors, lawyers or architects, says a study.

87 Nelson Mandela revealed he used to steal pigs to eat when he was a child.

88 The average number of sparrows per British garden has fallen from 10 in 1979 to 4.4 now.

89 The Himalayas cover one-tenth of the earth's surface.

90 Labour Party funraiser Lord Levy made part of his fortune as Alvin Stardust's manager.

91 Surprisingly, a polar bear would beat a lion in a fight.

92 Seven tenths of birthmarks will gradually fade away over time if left alone.

93 There are two million cars in Brazil which run on alcohol.

94 Sniffer dogs for the US Secret Service are put up in five-star hotels when the president travels abroad.

95 It costs on average 1.5p in water to flush a toilet.

96 Tufty, the Sixties road safety squirrel, had a surname. It was Fluffytail.

97 There are dozens of previously unknown species of animals and plants in an Indonesian rainforest.

98 Actress Helen Mirren was born I lyena Lydia Mironov, the daughter of a Russian-born violinist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

99 The term 'misfeasance' means to carry out a legal act illegally.

100 The CIA used to watch the TV series Mission: Impossible in order to get ideas about spying.