Out of the world’s 100 richest men in 2008, 62% married a brunette, 22% married a blonde, 16% married a blackhaired chick and none married a redhead

According to new statistics, the Australian video game industry is now double the size of our film industry
There are between 1000 and 3000 cases of bubonic plague recorded each year, says the World Health Organisation 

Last month, US teen Reina Hardesty sent 14,528 texts; that’s almost 500 a day. Her dad’s phone bill was 440 pages long  


Sexpo attracts more than 200,000 Aussies annually

Researchers have found one in five people between 16 and 20 have hearing problems caused by excessively loud MP3 players

There’s a hiking path near Wanaka, New Zealand, called the Shania Twain Track, because the trail passes through land owned by the Canadian country crooner 


 
53% of people believe overweight plane travellers should have to buy two economy-class seats 

A new uni course in Taiwan is teaching students how to appreciate and analyse porn movies. More than 50 students have registered “out of curiosity”

A quarter of Aussies believe it’s perfectly acceptable to swear in the workplace  


The Queen Mary 2 cruise ship is longer than the Eiffel Tower is high

Dogs like squeezy toys because they sound like small animals in distress 

Perth’s David Baird, 65, recently pushed a wheelbarrow 4115km from his hometown to Manly, NSW 


 
After the creation of cartoon character Popeye, spinach sales in the US rose by a third 

577 great white sharks have been netted off the NSW coast alone since 1950 

China’s Three Gorges Dam displaced 1.2 million people during its 16-year construction