100 things we didn't know last year 28 Dec 2006

The BBC News Magazine Monitor has just posted a list of "100 things we didn't know last year". Here are some of the tech-related highlights:

• 2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.
• 18. Up to 25% of hospital keyboards carry the MRSA infection.
• 23. More than one in eight people in the United States show signs of addiction to the internet, says a study.
• 79. The best-value consumer purchase in terms of the price and usage is an electric kettle.
• 81. Iceland has the highest concentration of broadband users in the world.
• 86. Six million people use TV subtitles, despite having no hearing impairment.
• 100. In the 1960s, the CIA used to watch Mission Impossible to get ideas about spying.