- The UK's national time signal is accurate to within 1,000th of a second of Co-ordinated Universal Time.
- Drinking, drug-taking teenagers are in the decline, according to a survey by the Information Centre.
- The average water temperature of the UK's rivers and lakes is 5C in winter, 18C in summer.
- Eight of the 10 most crowded train journeys in the UK are outside London.
- The average duvet is home to 20,000 live dust mites.
- Designer discount retailer TK Maxx is called TJ Maxx in the US.
- Having a baby can cost you up to two months sleep in the first year.
- Chimps and bonobos differ from humans by only 1% of DNA and could accept a blood transfusion or a kidney.
- Britain's peat bogs store carbon that is equivalent to 20 years' worth of national industrial emissions.
- Dogs can seemingly perform the Heimlich manoeuvre – a technique for helping someone who is choking.
(Source: BBC)