Scientists reckon there could be ten million deep-sea species that have yet to be discovered

A Chinese hospital has removed the world’s biggest tumour of its kind from a woman’s buttocks. It weighed 45kg and took eight hours to take out

Scrap metal thieves in Khabarovsk, Russia, stole a 200-tonne steel bridge without anyone noticing

Men spend around three months of their lives waiting for their girlfriends or wives to get ready

The average pencil can write for about 60km, depending on the hardness of the lead in it 

  
Ten per cent of your body weight would be from microorganisms on your body if you were freeze-dried

A one-day weather forecast requires ten billion mathematical calculations 

Fifty per cent of people who choke do so on the first bite

African elephants spend 18 hours per day eating 

Between 1990 and 1995, Holocaust films won four out of five Best Documentary Oscars  

Heavy metal band Black Sabbath got their name from a 1963 horror film of the same name

Up to the age of six months, a baby can breathe and swallow at the same time… unlike an adult
The valves of the human heart are as thick as a single piece of tissue paper 

The skins of turkeys are tanned and used to make cowboy boots and belts 

In Georgia, you have the right to commit battery if provoked by “fighting” words 

  
The favourites win less than 30 per cent of horse races 

Two British adventurers drove 4200km to Timbuktu and back in a truck fuelled by chocolate

People who are lying to you tend to look up and to the left 

Young children are poisoned by houseplants more often than by detergents and other chemicals 

The first female flight attendants back in 1930 were required to be unmarried, trained nurses and weigh no more than 52kg  


Singapore hosted a RoboCup in 1998, involving teams of robot footballers 

Over 80 per cent of pro boxers have suffered brain damage 

Cleopatra tested the efficiency of her poisons by giving them to her slaves 

When there’s no-one else waiting to use a public phone, callers average 90 seconds talking — but if someone’s waiting, the callers average four minutes per call