- It takes a Parisian bistro about three weeks to get through a horse carcass.
- Sarah Greene used to bite Peter Duncan's ankles to distract him during Blue Peter cookery demonstrations.
- 8% of parents with two or more children admit they love one child more than the other. A quarter of them favour the older child because they could do more with him or her; 13% said it was because one child misbehaved more often.
- China's rapid industrialisation has been accompanied by a surge in cancer rates: between 1970-2004, deaths from cancer rose by 80%.
- 73% of women in London prefer to sleep naked or in their knickers. 87% of women in the North favour long-sleeved tops and pyjamas.
- The average US worker spends 60-80% of their time online doing things unrelated to their jobs.
- In North Korea, women are encouraged to choose from 18 officially sanctioned hairstyles.
- For every person in the US bitten by a shark, 25 get bitten by New Yorkers.
- Nearly 20m Norwegians (20% of the population) tuned in to watch a TV programme about firewood, which included eight hours of a fire burning in a fireplace.
- A Finnish radio station broadcasts news in Latin.
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