Facts & Trends

Great Wall of Graffiti

A dedicated graffiti zone was set up at the Great Wall of China, in the hope it would stop visitors from scratching their names on the historic barrier.  Most of the graffiti on the wall, said the Chinese media, is ...

Driving Days

The riskiest hour of the week for fatal traffic accidents is 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. on Saturday. The safest day for driving: Tuesday ...

When Money Hurts

In just one year, 28,745 Americans injure themselves with paper money and coins ...

It’s Not Easy Being Green

City officials in Chengdu, China, have been painting the city's grass green to make residents think spring is here.The ruse came to light when some residents noticed unpainted patches of yellowish winter grass, and others found the green paint coming off ...

UFO Sightings

Number of UFO sighting reports made to England’s Ministry of Defence since 1959: 12,400 ...

It Was A Good Week For . . .

Timeliness, after scientists unveiled an atomic clock so accurate that it won’t lose or gain a single second in 15 billion years, which is roughly as long as the universe has existed ...

The stuff of life on Mercury

Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, has blistering 800-degree temperatures at its equator—but its poles are full of ice. New data from NASA's Messenger spacecraft, which began orbiting Mercury last year, has revealed that as much as a trillion ...

The Murder Of Land

"In America today you can murder land for private profit.  You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops." - Paul Brooks ...

Marijuana Related Tweets

Percentage of marijuana-related tweets that support use of the drug: 77 ...

British Businessmen and Their Teddy Bears

Percentage of British businessmen who travel with their teddy bears: 25 Percentage of British men who say they share  “all their secrets” with their teddy bears: 15 ...