- The new Wembley stadium has 2,600 toilets—more than any building in the world. [Evening Standard, 1st May 2007]
- Over half the organs used in transplant surgery in China come from judicial executions. [Human Rights Watch World Report 2007]
- There are three surviving British first world war veterans. [BBC News Online, 18th April 2007]
- Over 10 per cent of the Australian government's revenue comes from gambling. [The Guardian "Comment is Free," 27th March 2007]
- A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate. [FerretsMagazine.com]
- Over the past decade, the Arab population in Jerusalem has grown twice as fast as the Jewish. [AFP, 8th May 2007]
- There are 448,100 British women worth over £200,000 —compared with 429,300 men. [New Zealand Herald, 28th April 2007]
- At 0.6 miles an hour, the London Eye moves twice as fast as a sprinting tortoise. [London Eye website]
- 8.5 per cent of American CEOs live on a golf course. [San Jose Mercury News, 12th April 2007]
- IBM once sold a cheap printer, LaserWriterE, which was exactly the same model as the pricier LaserWriter except that it had a chip installed to slow it down. [The Undercover Economist, Tim Harford]
- Ants spend only one fifth of their day working. [1,000 Common Delusions by Christa Poppelmann]
- Under Gorbachev, 5 per cent of senior Soviet officials had a background in the armed forces or security services. Under Putin, the figure is 78 per cent. [Harper's, May 2007]
- Only 3 per cent of male birds have a penis. [The Economist, 5th May 2007]
- Properties in London costing more than £2m now outnumber those costing less than £100,000. [The London Paper, 9th May 2007]
- In the US, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola remained the same—5 cents—from 1886 to 1959. [Slate, 11th May 2007]
- Exports make up a higher proportion of GDP in Britain than in France, Germany, Japan or the US. [Liam Byrne speech]
- The insults moron, idiot, imbecile and cretin were once official medical diagnoses. [Balderdash & Piffle, BBC2]
- About 30 per cent of the Danish workforce changes jobs every year. [Wall Street Journal, 25th April 2007]
- When Woman's Hour began in 1946, it was hosted by a man. [Sunday Times, 13th May 2007]
- Moscow has a Muslim population of about 2.5m—the largest of any European city. Since 1989, Russia's Muslim population has increased by 40 per cent to about 25m. [San Francisco Chronicle, 19th November 2006]
