10 curious facts
10 curious things I found out on my interweb travels this week ...
1. Europe's share of global population will fall from 21% now to 7% by 2050 (The Economist)
2. Just 3% of commuters in the UK cycle to work even though 4 million people drive less than three miles to work (The Guardian)
3. The number of stay-at-home mothers fell by nearly a quarter from 2.7 million to 2.1 million between 1993 and 2007 and the number of "housedads" has doubled from 100,000 to 200,000 (The Guardian).
4. A London house that sold for £100,000 in 1976 would now be worth £4.2 million (The Telegraph)
5. Nearly one in 10 UK households now employs domestic help to do cleaning, cooking or ironing (The Telegraph)
6. One fifth of British people are unaware that bacon and sausages come from farms (BBC News Online)
7. Students graduating last summer were saddled with an average total debt of just over £13,250 per head (The Telegraph)
8. Whilst 69 per cent of mothers start out breast-feeding their newborns, 21 per cent stop within the first fortnight (The Telegraph)
9. More than 1.1 billion of the world's estimated 6.6 billion people are online and almost a third of those are now accessing the internet on high speed lines (The Guardian)
10. In the USA in 2006 nearly 14,000 boys age 13 to 19 underwent surgery to reduce the size of their breasts (New York Times).
Picture Credit: Russell Davies
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