1 The number of shops that sold toilet paper when it first went on sale in 1947 (Harrods).
1 The number of people who have been born on a London Underground carriage. A girl reportedly called Thelma Ursula Beatrice Eleanor (spelling TUBE) was born in 1924 on a Bakerloo line train at Elephant and Castle but the name story was untrue. She was called Marie Cordery.
2.8 The number of unhealthy snacks the average British person eats each day.
4 The number of women awarded the George Cross medal for acts of bravery during the Second World War.
7 The average British adult moves home every seven years.
10 The percentage of British adults who admit to wearing the same item of underwear three days in a row.
19 The percentage of British people who've never visited a McDonald's.
29 The percentage of British women who cut off the size labels from their clothes.
55 The percentage of British workers who say they never take a lunch break.
2 The number of teeth lost, on average, every 10 years by a person who smokes 20 cigarettes a day.
2.72 The weight in kilograms of lipstick the average woman uses during her life.
3 The number of times around the world a person will walk in the average lifetime.
7.5 On average, murderers are 7.5 years younger than their victims.
10 There are 10 distinct types of laughter (amused, joyous, sympathetic, polite, relieved, disappointed, embarrassed, stressed, commenting and ironic).
10 The number of days a person can go without sleep before dying. A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation.
700 Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ears 700 times.
THE HUMAN BODY
2 The amount in metres of nose hair an average person grows. 17 The number of muscles we use to smile.
25 If all 600 muscles in your body pulled in one direction, you could lift 25 tons.
100 How fast a human sneeze travels in miles per hour.
121 The number of litres of tears an individual sheds in a lifetime.
450 The number of hairs in an average eyebrow.
590 The length of hair in miles that the average person will grow during their life.
9,000 Of the 10,000 taste buds in the average human mouth, 9,000 are on the tongue (the other thousand are on the palate or in the cheeks).
86,000,000 The number of bits of information per day that the human brain is capable of recording.
MOVIES AND TV
1 In The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957) Alec Guinness - who won an Oscar for his role - had his name spelt with just one "n" in the final credits.
2 The number of actors who turned down the role of Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army (Arthur Lowe was cast only after Thorley Walters and Jon Pertwee turned it down).
5 The number of times Francis Ford Coppola was fired while directing The Godfather.
25 The number of pounds Peter Sellers was paid to provide the voices for the first PG Tips chimps' TV commerical.
400 The number of actresses who tested for the role of Scarlett in Gone With The Wind (1939) out of 1,400 interviewed. They included Lana Turner, Bette Davis, Lucille Ball, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard. However only Paulette Goddard and Vivien Leigh were filmed in colour for their auditions.
20,000 The highest-paid animal actors are bears which can earn $20,000 a day.
FOOD AND DRINK
4 A can of Spam is opened every four seconds.
30 The number of blends of tea in an average teabag.
35 During a lifetime the average person eats 35 tons of food.
60 Beethoven was so particular about his coffee that he always counted out 60 beans for each cup.
400 The number of quarter-pound hamburgers that can be made from one beef carcass.
10,000 It costs 10,000 times more to produce a litre of bottled water than a litre of tap water.
70,000 The average person will drink 70,000 cups of coffee in a lifetime.
10 The percentage of gift cards or vouchers that are not redeemed.
35 The number of dollars Caroline Davidson was paid in 1971 to create the Nike swoosh logo.
500 The amount in pounds per person Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels, left to each of his four friends with the instruction that they should "spend the same within 12 months of receipt on some extravagance".
4 The number of geese Lord Byron took with him everywhere he went.
15 In 1705 John Smith was hanged for burglary at the Tyburn Tree. After he had been hanging for 15 minutes, a reprieve arrived and he was cut down. Amazingly, he was revived and managed to recover. As a result, he became known as John 'Half-Hanged" Smith.
28 The number of different drugs Adolf Hitler was taking towards the end of his life.
38 The minutes it took Britain to beat Zanzibar in the shortest war in history fought in 1896.
150 The number of wigs owned by Elizabeth
5 An adult lion's roar is so loud it can be heard up to fi ve miles away.
9 The number of litres of water an elephant's trunk can hold.
20 The minutes per day that a giraffe sleeps. 34 The oldest age a cat has ever reached.
40 You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth. Most males have 40, females have just 36.
4,000 The number of years since the last new animal was domesticated.
16,000,000 The number of animals that assisted the armed forces during the First World War.
2.8 The number of unhealthy snacks the average British person eats each day
3 The number of teeth Soviet dictator Stalin had left when he died.
5 Disneyworld is bigger than the world's fi ve smallest countries.
50 The percentage of the world's population that has seen at least one James Bond movie.
150 The number of calories used per hour by banging your head against a wall.
250,000 The estimated number of cigars smoked by Sir Winston Churchill in his lifetime.
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