20% of Britons say they are too busy at work to use up their holiday allowance, while 25% claim they end up working on their break.
Once we turn 60, we are 14% more likely to die on our birthdays than any other day.
The total haul of today’s fishermen is 6% of that caught by their forebears in sailing boats in the late 19th century.
The Royal Mail shreds almost 15m undelivered items every year, 300,000 a week.
The number of homeless families in England has risen 14% over the past year.
40% of people think dinner parties are too expensive, time-consuming and stressful to bother with.
57% of pet owners let their animals share their beds and 39% have kicked their partner out of bed, rather than their pet to get a good night’s sleep.
In the 1950s women typically burned up to 1000 calories a day doing household chores.
Overall numbers of butterflies fell by 20% between 2010 and 2011.
A single raindrop can weigh up to 50 times as much as a mosquito.
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