Elen Lewis, Editor of The Marketing Society curates 10 interesting facts from May.
- Male CEOs with the deepest voices earned more on average than the ones with reedier tones. They also tended to head up bigger firms, according to a study of nearly 800 American CEOs in the US.
- Britain is one of the most racially tolerant countries in the the world, with fewer than 5% saying they would mind having neighbours of a different race - compared to 23% in France, 44% in India and 51% in Jordan.
- Asked to identify their happiest types of home, 88% listed those on cul-de-sacs. Only country lanes, on 93%, were more popular.
- During a 90-minute game, each footballer is in possession of the ball for just 53.4 seconds, on average.
- Nearly 10,000 children aged between five and seven are acting as unpaid carers for family members or guardians - 80% more than a decade ago.
- The French call a walkie-talkie a talkie-walkie.
- There is more protein in a caterpillar than a dung beetle.
- Using "don't" and "won't" correctly in online dating messages boosts response rates by more than a third.
- A KFC family meal in Gaza costs £18 and must be brought in by tunnel from Egypt.
- 75% of children know the passwords to their parents' phones and computers. One in five children have secretly bought things online this way.
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