Just to get you thinking about the world around us, we thought it might be fun to consider the following facts. We have tried hard to check the authenticity of each one and every one.

• Pound for pound, Strawberries have more Vitamin C than oranges.
• No matter what its size or thickness, no piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
• A jiffy is an actual unit of time. It equals 1/100th of a second. Thus the saying, it will only take a jiffy.
• The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo
• Just by recycling 1 aluminium can, enough energy could be saved to run a TV for 3 hours.
• The little dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
• 15 National Lottery Jackpot wins, each in excess of £1 million, have never been claimed and the money has now been used for good causes.
  ( Source: www.national-lottery.co.uk )
• 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
• 1 in 3 people in the UK will develop cancer at some time during their life. (Source: Office for National Statistics, Nov 2004)
• When asked most people agree they would not wish to live on just their state pension, yet 35% of employed people and 46% of self-employed people make formal pension provision. (Source: Office for National Statistics, Nov 2004)
• During the calendar year 2003, there were on average 28 deaths each day amongst people aged between 35 –44. (Source: Office for National Statistics, Deaths age and sex for England & Wales)
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