With 48 billion unique images, Facebook houses the world's largest photo collection.

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Facebook users are adding photos at a rate of nearly 1 billion unique images a week.

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70% of Facebook's users are from outside the US.

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Users share more than 25 billion pieces of information with Facebook each month.

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Facebook flashed more than 176 billion banner ads at users in the first three months of this year — more than any other site.

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Just a month after launching Open Graph, Facebook is quickly approaching the point where it will process 100 million unique clicks of a Like button each day.

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More than 1 in 4 people who browse the Internet not only have a Facebook account but have returned to the site within the past 30 days.

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1 in 8 bicycles sold in the Netherlands is an electric bicycle.

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The Department of Justice is pursuing far more cases of corporate corruption now than it has ever done before - 150 today compared with just 8 in 2001.

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Sony's films earned $1.5 billion at the American box office in 2009 but made a record $2.1 billion outside the country.

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Two-thirds of Chinese households with internet connections have bought an everyday item online in the past 6 months.

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The average sport fan consumes almost 10 hours of media in an average day, against just over 5 hours for other young men.

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Despite its current woes, Toyota reported a net income of $1.2 billion for the first quarter of 2010.

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Hulu streamed more than 1 billion videos in December 2009.

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Americans buy 7 billion physical cards but send only 500 million e-cards a year.

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Over 35% of Indians are illiterate.

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The average income per person in China is around $3,500 and in India $1,000.

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In 2009, sales of recorded music totalled $17 billion globally.

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The number of cinema screens served by digital projectors worldwide rose from about 3,000 to 16,400 between 2006 and 2009.

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Currently, there are around 21,500 multinationals based in emerging markets.

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In the final quarter of 2009, the average American spent almost 37 hours a week watching television.

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The data management industry is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion and growing at almost 10% a year, roughly twice as fast as the software business as a whole.

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Between 2008 and 2009, US exports dropped by $272 billion whereas imports fell by $589 billion.

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About a billion tyres a year are produced across the world.

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China produces 75,000 people with higher degrees in engineering or computer science and India 60,000 every year.

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On average, a British car is driven for less than an hour a day but costs about £5,500 a year to own.

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Corporate exectives have an 82% chance of facing a corporate disaster within any five-year period, up from 20% two decades ago.

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In the US, the federal petrol tax has remained at 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993.

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[Update - 19/5/2010: Before being changed post John's comment (see below), the stat above read "In the US, the federal petrol tax has remained at just 18.4 cents per gallon since 1993."]

China has a staggering $2.4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves - enough to buy 2/3rds of all NASDAQ-quoted companies.

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The share of new Harvard graduates entering finance or consulting, which in 2007 reached 47%, plunged to a mere 20% in 2009.

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Germany accounted for roughly half of new installations of solar cells around the world in 2009.

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