FACTS I FOUND

Here's a bunch of facts I found on some playing cards. I don't know the source they came from but logically, they seem pretty reasonable.

• 20% of the population in the developed nations consume 86% of the world's goods.
• Russia has twice as many chess Gandmasters as its nearest competitor, Germany.
• Canadians drink more fruit juice than the citizens of any other nation.
• In Germany and Italy, every second person owns a car.
• In many countries, more than 25% of the deaths are attributable to cancer.
• Canada lays claim to more water than any other nation.
• Red is the most popular colour used on national flags, and is found on 74% of all the flags of the world.
• Russia has over 25% of the world's proven gas reserves.
• 9 out of 10 Scandinavians would fight for their country.
• Over 35% of young people in Poland are unemployed.
• The total area of Australia's coral reefs is greater than the total area of some 130 individual countries.
• More than a third of the world's airports are in the United States of America.
• THe UK and USA are both in the top ten for Gross Domestic Product - and for child poverty.
• The average person in UK drinks as much tea as 23 Italians.
• Venezuela is the happiest and one of the most murderous places in the world.
• 32.6% of the world's roller coasters are located in the USA.
• Indonesia contains the most known mammal species - and them most mammal species under threat.
• People in Germany, Belgium, Hungary and Sweden have to pay almost half their salaries in tax.
• The women of Iceland earn two-thirds of their nation's university degrees.
• France is the top destination in the world for tourists, accounting for 11% of all tourist arrivals worldwide.
• As many as 90% of infants who lose their mothers in delivery will die by their first birthday.
• The 5 countries with the highest coffee consumption are the ones whose citizens trust one another the most.
• In Kenya, 9 out of 10 children from poor households fail to complete their basic education.
• 82% of Americans feel safe walking in the dark. Yet more crimes happen in America than anywhere else.
• Humans have destroyed more than 30% of the natural world since 1970.
• If someone you know died from falling out of a tree, you're probably Brazilian.
• Women make up more than 10% of the prison population in only 6 countries.
• From a scale of 1 to 10, Swiss are giving their satisfaction of life and awesome 8.
• 62% of Bulgarians describe themselves as either "not very" or "not at all" happy.
• Without prevention efforts, 35% of children born to an HIV positive mother will become infected with HIV.
• Danish workers strike 150 times more than their German neighbours.
• Considering teaching as a profession? Salaries in Switzerland start at $33,000 per annum.
• Love cities? Guadeloupe, Nauru, Monaco, Singapore, Gibralter and Bermuda are 100% urbanized.
• Andorra has zero unemployment, and zero broadcast TV channels. Coincidence?
• Sick of crowds? Move to Greenland! Greenlanders have 38 square kilometres of land per person.
• Luxembourgers are the world's richest people - and the most generous.
• The United States has the world's highest marriage rate - as well as the world's highest divorce rate.
• Mexican women spend 15.3% of their life in ill health.
• It is estimated that 80% of the reported global shark catch is caught by only 20 countries.
• Almost half (44.8%) of the total number of movie goers worldwide, are from India.
• The Mall in Washington DC is 1.4 times larger than the Vatican City.
• Australians are the most likely to join charities, educational organisations, sports groups and unions.
• Sri Lanka has the lowest divorce rate in the world and the highest rate of female suicide.
• 1 out of 100 young women between the ten and twenty are starving themselves, sometimes to death.
• 61.5% of Swedes work more than 40 hours per week.
• The United States spends more money on its military than the next twelve nations combined.
• More than 90% of the tiger population disappeared in the 20th century: today apporximately 5000 remain.
• United States, followed by Mexico top the world in plastic surgery procedures.

MY GODPUPPIES

They're growing up so fast!