The average UK household has 2.4 TVs, 1.6 computers, 2.4 games consoles, 3 mobile phones, and 2.2 MP3 players.

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Only about 18% of the America's 68.5 million broadband households own a webcam.

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The number of American millionaires dropped from 9.2 million to 6.7 million between 2007 and 2008.

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Nintendo DS is the best-selling had-held game device. Over 100 million have been sold - more than twice as many as Sony's PSP.

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America spends some 16% of its GDP on healthcare, the largest share of any big country.

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Vodafone has more than 290 million subscribers worldwide.

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The US federal poverty line is $22,000 for a family of four.

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GM's current stock market value is $700 million, which represents less than 1% of Toyota's.

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In Britain, around 70 local newspapers have shut down since the beginning of 2008.

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30,000 people die in America each year due to seasonal influenza.

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The average age of a car in Britain is 7 years.

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Chinese firms won just 90 patents in America in 1999 but received 1,225 in 2008.

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Since 2005 (and prior to taking over Sun), Oracle has spent $30 billion buying 50 firms including PeopleSoft, Siebel and BEA.

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The average U.S. city commuter loses 38 hours a year to traffic delays.

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Of China's 1.3 billion people, only 115 million own credit cards.

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The market for wholesale polished diamonds, worth about $21.5 billion, is expected to fall to about $12 billion in 2009.

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In Ukraine, it takes 47 permits to open a business and 3 years to close it.

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The total number of mobile phone users in India reached 392m by the end of March 2009.

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Together, GM and Chrysler lost $48 billion in 2008.

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There are 15,300 taxis on the streets of Paris.

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In the U.S., 95% of teens make purchases with cash.

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China's virtual goods economy, the largest in the world, is worth $800 million and growing at 30% a year.

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The record amount paid for a domain name is $14m for sex.com, in 2007.

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The average woman ingests as much as four pounds of lipstick in her lifetime.

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A typical Google search on a desktop computer produces about 7g CO2.

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The average economically active individual in the developed world is on about 700 databases.

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North Korea is the least visited country in the world – only 1,800 Westerners make the trip each year.

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62 trillion spam emails were sent in 2008; the annual energy consumed by spam is equivalent to the energy usage of more than 2 million typical homes.

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A new English word is created every 98 minutes.

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More American's own their own companies (15%) than belong to trade unions (12%.)

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According to a 2000 census, immigrants made up 47% of scientists and engineers in America with Ph.Ds.

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