10 things we didn’t know in July

10 things: July

1. Emailing is still the most common internet activity in Britain.

2. In the 1990s all teachers in North Korea were required to play the accordion.

3. The smallest stars in the Universe are the size of Saturn

4. Girls in Saudi Arabia are to be given PE lessons in school for the first time

5. The design of the sari worn by Mother Teresa - white with three blue stripes - has been trademarked

6. About 10 million Britons may have skipped sleep or made themselves tired the next day because they were binge-watching TV.

7. If Facebook were a religion it would be the second largest in the world (after Christianity).

8. More than eight billion cans of Spam have been sold over the past 80 years.

9. The chairman of a corporation is four times more likely to be a psychopath than the caretaker.

10. Playdoh a modeling compound used by children was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1930s.

By Elen Lewis, The Marketing Society Editor. 

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