According to a maths boffin, Peter Backus, roughly speaking Brits have a 1 in 285,000 chance of meeting their one true love. (He came up with the figure when writing a research paper called "Why I Don't Have A Girlfriend." "An application of the Drake Equation to love in the U.K." You can listen to […]

According to figures released by Alcohol Concern, around 10 million NHS admissions in England between 2012 and 2013 were related to alcohol. (They have produced an "alcohol harm map" to highlight the problem of alcohol misuse, which is estimated to cost society around £21 billion.)

The YouTube video Gangnam Style has forced YouTube to upgrade their viewing statistics to handle 64 bit numbers. (The number of views for the video steadily increased since its release in 2012, until it hit a critical 2,147,483,647. Why critical? Well, the largest number that can be represented by a 32-bit integer is 2,147,483,647. As […]

40 is the only number in English that, when written out as a word, has its letters in alphabetical order. Forty (1 has its letters in alphabetical order - backwards.  Try it!)

According to a survey carried out by Mumsnet, 1 in 3 children in the UK haven't been taught how to dial the emergency number, 999. (More worryingly, many children in the UK don't know the difference between 999 and 911 (the US emergency number). It's something you should teach, in the hopes it's never needed.)