Number

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Amount of time in an average lifetime in Britain spent looking for lost things (in years).

Length of time a snail can sleep if it isn’t disturbed (in years).

Number of British school children who think Adolf Hitler was British prime minister during the Second World War.

Number of Americans injured by supermarket trolleys every hour.

Number of spiders we eat accidently in an average lifetime.

Number of days spent by British people in traffic jams every year.

Speed (in mph) of London traffic in 1900.Also speed of London traffic in 1996.

Amount of time US patients are allowed to speak before being interrupted by their doctors (in seconds).

Percentage of medical columns in Canadian newspapers judged to be giving ‘potentially life-threatening’ advice.

Percentage of people from India who have not heard of the USA.

Number of people in the UK visiting Accident and Emergency departments after accidents involving tea-cosies (1997).

Percentage that the death rate dropped during a month-long doctors’ strike in Israel in 1973.

Average amount of hours British people spend on hold on the phone every year.

Percentage of British males who believe in aliens.

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(*all statistics in this book are taken from

David Boyle’s book, “The Tyranny of Numbers”)