In 2012, the Advertising Standards Authority ordered a Northampton-based furniture store
in England to stop advertising its prices as 'Sofa King Low'.
China is the world's largest supplier of Bibles: one factory in Nanjing prints a million a
month.
10% of US electricity is made from dismantled Soviet atomic bombs.
Over 100 billion neutrinos pass unnoticed through your head every second.
The Queen is the legal owner of one-sixth of the Earth's land surface.
There are enough diamonds in existence to give everyone on the planet a cupful.
If you scaled a snooker ball up to the size of the Earth, it would have mountains three
times higher than anything currently on the planet.
Everybody expected the Spanish Inquisition before they arrived, because they were legally
obliged to give 30 days' notice.
George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein had their shoes hand-made by the same Italian cobbler.
Collectively, humans have spent longer playing World of Warcraft than they have existed as
a species separate from chimpanzees.
Humans have collectively racked up 5.93 million years of WoW.
The first advertising jingles were written down in newspapers; readers were expected
to sing them themselves.