In fact

Tourists put on more weight during a trip to the US than anywhere else in the world—8lb, on average, during a two-week break. Femalefirst.co.uk, 29th July 2011

Phone-hacker and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire scored the first goal for the team AFC Wimbledon, started in 2002 and now in the Football League. The Observer, 30th July 2011

France has about 30,000 roundabouts, the most in the world. BBC News website, 30th June 2011

For the first time, there are more than 100 women on the Sunday Times Rich List. Daily Telegraph, 8th May 2011

Sales of To Kill A Mockingbird rose by 123 per cent on Amazon.co.uk after David and Victoria Beckham named their daughter after its author Harper Lee. Daily Mail, 20th July 2011

The US and Denmark are the only democracies to have debt ceilings. The New Yorker, 1st August 2011

An MP elected to the last parliament is four times more likely to be in jail than the average Briton (0.13 per cent of the general population are in prison, 0.61 per cent of the last House of Commons are). Private Eye, 27th May 2011

In California, taxpayers have spent more than $4bn on capital punishment since it was reinstated in 1978, or about $308m for each of the 13 executions carried out. Los Angeles Times, 20th June 2011

The Daily Mail website is approaching 80m monthly users and may soon overtake the New York Times as the world’s most popular newspaper website. The Guardian, 23rd June 2011