- Estimated value of unwanted products bought in UK chemists each year by customers hoping to “hide” the embarrassing products (eg, condoms, sanitary products) that they really want to buy: £46m.
- 38% of people using “Paris Hilton” as a fake name while ordering take away pizza order pepperoni.
- 2-3 million Iranians are addicted to heroin – the highest population proportion in the world.
- 10% of Europeans are now conceived on Ikea beds.
- Proportion of British men who claim to do most of the housework in 1954: 12%.
Proportion of British men who claim to do most of the housework in 2005: 12%.
- There are about 700 different local cheeses produced in Britain.
- Current UK population of Hedgehogs: about 1.5 million.
- Spending on handbags has doubled in the past five years.
- Date by which the Arctic could be entirely ice-free in summer: 2086.
- 300 million bottles of Champagne are produced each year. France drinks 180 million of them, UK polishes off 40 million and USA chugs back 20 million.
- There are approximately 1.5 billion cows in the world, roughly a quarter of them are in India.
- Creavtive people have, on average, twice the number of sexual partners as the wider population.