FACTS TO BLOW YOUR SOCKS OFF
In October 2008, inflation in Zimbabwe reached 231,000,000%. The average car in Britain is parked for 96% of the time. Casanova was a librarian. India has almost 155,000 post offices: more than any country in the world and almost twice as many as China. Chess, Ludo and Snakes and Ladders were all invented in ancient India. Snakes and Ladders was called Moksha Patam – ‘the path to liberation’. South-east England has a lower annual rainfall than Jerusalem or Beirut. 50 to 100 people kill themselves on the London Underground each year, but official records state that only three babies have ever been born there, in 1924, 2008 and 2009. Women make 25% of the films in Iran, compared to 4% in the US. By 2025, there will be more English speakers in China than in the rest of the world put together A new skyscraper is built in China every five days. By 2016, there will be four times as many as in the whole of the US. The electrical energy that powers each cell in our bodies works out