- Poverty costs British people £600 each per year, says the TUC.
- Israel has active neo-Nazis.
- Osama Bin Laden is known to fellow jihadists as Abu Abdullah.
- The Marquess of Blandford's real name is Charles Spencer-Churchill, although he is commonly known as Jamie Blandford.
- It takes police 25 minutes on average to fill in a stop-and-search form, according to chief inspector of constabulary Sir Ronnie Flanagan.
- Telly Savalas was recruited to help promote Aberdeen as Europe's oil capital in 1980.
- A women's football match drew 53,000 spectators to Goodison Park, Liverpool, in 1920, a year before the sport was banned by the Football Association.
- George Bush once locked Colin Powell out of a meeting for being late.
- More than one in 10 (12%) of school absences are down to agreed family holidays.
- Older siblings stunt growth.
(Source: BBC)