The Tampa Tribune lists 50 things we know now that we didn’t know this time last year.  Highlights include:

9. Babies pick up their parents’ accents from the womb, and infants are born crying in their native dialect. Researchers found that French newborns cry in a rising French accent, and German babies cry with a characteristic falling inflection.

19. The calmest place on Earth is on top of an icy plateau in Antarctica known as Ridge A, several hundred miles from the South Pole. It is so still that stars do not twinkle in the sky because there is no turbulence in the atmosphere to distort the light.

27. Women who revealed about 40 percent of their skin attracted twice as many men as those who covered up. Any more than 40 percent and the signal changes from allure to one indicating general availability and future infidelity.

Nerve has a list of the top 20 Internet lists of 2009.  Nice of them to put all of the Internet gold in one place.

Additionally, Time has The Top 10 Everything of 2009.

Reader’s Digest brings us “30 Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You”.

10. Oh, you needed more water so badly, you had to snap or tap or whistle? I’ll be right back … in ten minutes.

And from the I-wish-I-didn’t-know-that department:

28. If you’re worried about cleanliness, check out the bathroom. If the bathroom is gross, you can be sure the kitchen is much worse.

The Hollywood Reporter lists the top 10 movie flops of the decade.

I’ve seen four of them and gave them an average rating of 1.875 stars out of five.  I completely forgot that “Battlefield Earth” was part of this decade.

You know when you go to Google and start typing in the search field, how it attempts to autocomplete what you’re typing with popular searches other’s have done?  Well, some of them are freaking hilarious, and thankfully, someone has put together a site to show off the best ones.

I gotta warn you…don’t drink anything while reading some of these.  In fact, it’s probably best to vacate your bowels prior to reading them as well.

Vodkaster has produced the best movies of all time subway map.  Each genre is a separate line, and I love how they were able to do a pretty good job of intersecting the lines with movies that straddle genres.  Nicely done.

Rotten Tomatoes lists the 100 worst movies of the decade. “Gigli” comes in at 73; “Glitter” barely breaks into the list at 99.  “Aeon Flux” not on the list?  Hmmm…not sure I trust it.

Hangover helpers from around the world

National Geographic lists ten cures for the common hangover.  None of them are especially appetizing (except maybe the Netherlands), and a few are just downright nasty.

Josh’s hangover cure…two McDonald’s hamburgers.  The hard part is finding someone to go get them for you.

Rolling Stone mag publishes “100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time”

Of course there are issues with it, but “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)” at #12?  How are we supposed to take this list seriously?

50 greatest comedy sketches of all time

Complete with YouTube videos for most sketches.

100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year

A very British centric list, but I found the following gems:

#11. Astronauts wear nappies during launch and re-entry because they can’t stop what they’re doing should they need to urinate.
#31. There is mobile phone reception from the summit of Mount Everest.
#62. Until the late 1990s, the RAF’s nuclear bombs could be activated using a bicycle lock key.
#72. Dumbledore is gay.
#90. Chickens can be diagnosed with depression.

America’s deadliest jobs

Fishermen top the list, as well as being one heck of a TV show.

Top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years

The American Society of Magazine Editors ranks the top 40 covers of the last 40 years.  One of the covers is my shower curtain.  I’ll let you take a guess at which one. (hint: it’s in the top 5)

New Seven Wonders of the World

The Great Wall of China, Petra in Jordan, Brazil’s statue of Christ the Redeemer, Peru’s Machu Picchu, Mexico’s Chichen Itza pyramid, The Colosseum in Rome, and India’s Taj Mahal.  Rumor has it the iPhone was number eight.

James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful” voted most irritating song of all time

You’re joking, right?  What about that Titanic song by Celine Dion?  Oh…it’s at number nine.

17 foods to try before you die

The Kobe beef sashimi sounds great, so does the real balsamic vinegar, and Langós. Not too sure about horse or scallop roe.  Since I’ve seen how they make foie gras, I’m staying far away from it.  Yuck.