Auntie’s Factoids
December 30th, 2005 at 12:09 pm
I’m back! Hooray! No? Okay, I’ll be posting soon about my Christmas experience very soon, as well as letting the world know about my favourite things of the year, but in the mean time I thought I’d share a few of these interesting facts from 2005 that have been posted over at the BBC’s news site.
You can find the full list here, but here are a few of my favourites…
- One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
- In America it’s possible to subpoena a dog.
- The British buy the most compact discs in the world - an average of 3.2 per year, compared to 2.8 in the US and 2.1 in France.
- “Restaurant” is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.
- You’re 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
- It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.
- The day when most suicides occurred in the UK between 1993 and 2002 was 1 January, 2000.
- The only day in that time when no-one killed themselves was 16 March, 2001, the day Comic Relief viewers saw Jack Dee win Celebrity Big Brother.
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