In fact

Honey bees can be trained to count up to four.
^{The Age, 27th October 2008}

Only three Americans have ever sat as MPs: Nancy Astor, Chips Channon and Brooks Newmark.
^{Brooks Newmark}

Only one person from Laos is registered with a work permit in the UK. There are two people from Burma with work permits.
^{Daily Mail, 18th October 2008}

The only recorded duel fought between two women was in 1792. Lady Almeria Braddock demanded a Mrs Elphinstone give her satisfaction in Hyde Park after the latter had implied the former was older than she claimed. An exchange of shots damaged Lady Almeria's hat, before a clash of swords sent her opponent bleeding from the field.
^{The Independent, 26th October 2008}

Liverpool lost almost half its population between 1937 and 2001.
^{The Logic of Life by Tim Harford}

Paul Newman was number 19 on Richard Nixon's enemies list.
^{The Independent, 28th September 2008}

The NHS spends £255,000 a year translating its services into 160 languages, including Cherokee.
^{Daily Mail}

Ho Chi Minh worked as a pastry cook at the Carlton Hotel in London in 1916.
^{The Book of Ages by Eric Hanson}

More women than men accepted a place at medical and dentistry schools in 2007, with 5,128 women enrolling compared to only 3,929 men. 79 per cent of first year student vets in 2007-8 were women. 63 per cent of students enrolled with the Law Society in 2007 were women.
^{Daily Telegraph, 13th October 2008}

Robert Frost got the young Truman Capote fired from his job at The New Yorker after he walked out of one of Frost's poetry readings in 1944.
^{The Book of Ages by Eric Hanson}

A "jiffy" is a unit of time in electronics (the time between alternating current power cycles: 1/60 or 1/50 of a second) computing (the duration of one tick of the system timer interrupt, typically 0.01 seconds) and quantum physics (the time it takes for light to travel one Fermi).
^Wikipedia

There are no Republicans representing New England seats in the newly-elected House of Representatives. (New England comprises Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.)
^{BBC News, Friday 7th November 2008}

Almost 75 per cent of all women living with HIV globally are Commonwealth citizens.
^{The SOPHIA Forum}

Mamma Mia! is now the biggest grossing BritIsh film of all time in the UK, having made £66,995,224. Only the film Titanic has made more in Britain—£69m—a figure that Mamma Mia! could still pass.
^{The Guardian, 30th October 2008}

Russian gas accounts for just 6 per cent of EU?energy consumption.
^{The European council on foreign relations}

President Bush is less popular than Nixon was at the time of his resignation—76 per cent of people disapprove of Bush, compared to 66 per cent for Nixon in August 1974.
^{Politico, 10th November 2008}

In 2005, black American women were just behind white non-Hispanic men in graduation rates per capita, at 37 per cent compared to 39 per cent. If current trends continue, they will soon overtake them.
^{The Population Reference Bureau}