in fact

• One in every 12,500,000 spam emails gets a response. At this response rate, hackers will make about £4,430 a day or £2.21m a year.
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• Truckers are Britain's fattest male profession. In a survey of 5,000 men, more than 42 per cent of lorry drivers were found to have a waist band size above the average of 38 inches. Lawyers were the next fattest male job, followed by IT workers.

• Lyon have won their league title for the past seven seasons—making France the least competitive of UEFA's 53 nations, except for Moldova, where Sheriff Tiraspot have won eight straight titles dating back to 2001.

• Elephants cannot jump.

• 50 per cent of British Muslim women go to university, compared to a national average of 38 per cent.

• A Rubik's cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations. (New York Times magazine, 28th November 2008)

• There are around 20 families with the name Obama in the US, compared with more than 11,000 Clintons and 60,000 Bushes. There is only one known Obama family in Britain; they live in Clapham. (Washington Post, 28th November 2008 & BBC News, 4th February 2008)

• 98 per cent of the Aston Martins ever produced are still on the road.