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  • Britain’s tallest man is 7ft 7.
  • The island of Ibiza is known to the local population as Eivissa.
  • Every year, the Edinburgh Festival generates £75million for the Scottish economy.
  • Jet Pack International will release a fully functional jet pack, the T-73, for just £130,000 later this year.
  • Naming your pig after Napoleon is still illegal in France.
  • There were 2,390 executions recorded worldwide in 2008.
  • There are 109 journeys between London Underground stations that are quicker on foot.
  • The US Navy don’t acknowledge the existence of the Bermuda Triangle.
  • Miss Universe has to remain single for a year after winning.
  • The top speed of the US Air Force’s F-117 Nighthawk stealth ground attack plane is 617mph.
  • It’s illegal to run out of petrol while driving on German motorways.
  • There are only ten female RAF pilots.
  • The longest ever combat kill by a sniper occurred in 2002 when a Taliban fighter was shot from 1.51 miles away in Afghanistan.
  • Fifteen new words are introduced to the English language every day.
  • Five Royal Navy ships have been named Illustrious.
  • There’s a putting green on the White House lawn.
  • 3,670 female officers currently serve in Britain’s armed forces.
  • There are currently 22 aircraft carriers in active service.
  • The plastic bits on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
  • A total of 26 Victoria Crosses have been worn by men serving with the Gurkhas.
  • It costs around £250,000 to train a US Navy SEAL.
  • Wayne Rooney earns £90,000 a week.
  • There are only 427 seats in the House of Commons but 659 MPs.
  • The US military owns and operates 234 golf courses.
  • There are 230,000 miles of roads in the UK.
  • There are 164 professional cow-catchers in New Delhi, India.
  • Adolf Hitler conquered 1.37million square miles in his reign.
  • One 20×10x10cm lump of wood can make 4.4milions stamps.
  • The very first display by the Red Arrows was on 6th may 1965 at Little Rissington Airfield.
  • There are more post offices in India (154,919) than anywhere else in the world.
  • Workers in Saudi Arabia only get two Bank Holidays per year.
  • A slinky can stretch 30 meters.
  • China has more beehives (7.3million) than any other country in the world.
  • The worlds largest private Scalextric collection contains 1,000 cars and is worth £50,000.


  • Press-ups were invented in Afghanistan.
  • Surinam is 90% forest.
  • 2005s Hurricane Katrina caused £44billion-worth of damage.
  • Birminghams Winson Green prison is the largest in England, with a population of 1,450.
  • During the Second World War Disney created over 1,000 military insignias for the US armed forces.
  • Earth is the only planet not named after a pagan God.
  • Every day is about 55 billionths of a second longer than the day before it
  • If an Amish man has a beard, he is married.
  • For every 10 successful attempts to climb Mount Everest there is one fatality. (As of 2006)
  • The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
  • Plastic lawn flamingos outnumber real flamingos in the U.S.A.
  • The correct response to the Irish greeting, “Top of the morning to you,” is “and the rest of the day to yourself.”
  • At any one time, there are 100 million phone conversations going on in the United States.
  • Average people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000.
  • Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades–King David, Clubs–Alexander the Great, Hearts–Charlemagne and Diamonds–Julius Caesar.


  • If you attempted to count to stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
  • The average person will spend two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.
  • Bulgarians nod their head when they say no.
  • On average, $25 billion spent on car-washes in the US per year.
  • You can legally bury someone in your back garden if you own your own house and mention it in the deeds when you sell it.
  • Alaska has 24 golf courses.
  • London has 1,800 miles of sewers.
  • Britain’s oldest driver is Norman Yeo, aged 101, from Bristol.
  • Glasgow has more crime than New York.
  • 15 million people in the UK watched the 2008 Champions League final shoot-out.
  • Woman are banned by law from Mount Athos in Greece.
  • At its current rate of expansion, China’s Navy will become the worlds largest by 2020.
  • There are currently 7,306 commercial satellites currently in orbit.
  • The Second World War cost the US $1,520 billion.
  • The site of Stonehenge was a burial ground for 500 years.
  • Worth £19 billion, Vodafone is the UK’s leading brand.
  • There are 887 monolithic statues on Easter Island.
  • The area of the earth’s surface devoted to golf courses is 0.014%.
  • The Napoleonic Code allowed a man to kill his wife if he caught her in bed with another man.


  • There are 296 steps to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
  • London has 23 casinos.
  • There are 196 million goats in China.
  • Adolf Hitler’s armies conquered 1,370,000 square miles.