- Up to 1800 thunderstorms are going on in the world at any moment.
- A citizen of the UK is most likely to be shot in November, drowned in July, and subject to a fatal fall in December.
- One ounce of cress contains enough cyanide to kill two mice.
- London houses did not acquire street numbers until 1763, three centuries after Paris came up with the idea.
- Happy Birthday To You was written in 1936, is still in copyright and may not be sung in public without payment of a royalty – which is why it is so rarely heard in films or on TV.
- Up to 58% of the London Underground is not underground.
- A koala bear sleeps for 22 hours a day.
- The Black Death of 1347 – 51 killed 75 million people.
- The Hundred Years’ War lasted 116 years.
- In the Gambia, Ghana, and the Comoros, every woman is married by the age of 50.