Facturbation, time to get off on some facts.

  • 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.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *