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| The desire for a perfect home coupled with increasingly long working hours are starting to sound the DIY death knell, according to research published today. More and more Britons are hanging up their hammers and paying the professionals, according to research by Standard Life Bank. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel – 24th November 2004 |
| Ireland has come top of a quality of life survey of the best countries in the world to live, according to The World in 2005 magazine. The Emerald Isle scored 8.33 out of a possible 10 when compared with 110 other countries. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel – 17th November 2004 |
| Americans display an alarmng lack of knowledge: 40% of high school seniors think that the US fought with Germany against the Soviets during the Second World War. | |
| Odd Facts | The Sentinel Sunday - 7th Novemeber 2004 |
| Britain has become a nation on the move. It's been found that around 1 in 5 (22%) adults live in the town where they were born while almost 1 in 2 (48%) are more than 100 miles away. While the remaining 30% have left their home town or village, they remain within a 100 mile radius. | |
| Odd Facts | Daily Mail - 24th September 2004 |
| If our DNA were to be recorded on paper it would comprise a library of 9000 volumes with 500 pages in each tome. | |
| Odd Facts | Just Right - Issue 11 |
| 35.1% of male drivers aged 18 to 20 have driven without insurance or a licence. 25.5% of 16 to 17 year old males have driven without insurance or a licence. 9.2% of 16 to 17 year old females have committed the same offence. 30% of males and 12% of females aged 21 to 25 have also offended. Approximately 16% of uninsured drivers get convicted each year. One in ten drivers has been involved in an accident with an uninsured driver. Uninsured drivers are up to nine times more likely to be involved in an accident. Uninsured drivers are more likely to be involved in hit and run collisions. | |
| Odd Facts | The War Cry – 18th September 2004 |
| North Korea covers 75,000 square miles, its population is estimated at 22,697,553 with an army estimated to be more than one million strong. Food shortages resulted in very short troops with the world's lowest minimum height at 4ft 11in. | |
| Odd Facts | The Times - 1st September 2004 |
| The Somali Democratic Republic has a population of 10.4 million people. It is made up of 85% Somali, Bantu and Arabs. Somali is the official language followed by Arabic, Italian and English. Sunni Muslim is the official language, with an industry mainly of agriculture with livestock and bananas the main export. There has not been a consistent central government since 1991. | |
| Odd Facts | Response - October 2004 |
| According to a recent survey where you live makes a difference to your self esteem. The highest being found in East Anglia (48 per cent) and the lowest (32 per cent) in the West Midlands. The survey also asked people what boosted their individual self esteem. 65 per cent answered self respect, 52 per cent answered confidence, 29 per cent answered independence, 27 per cent answered dignity and 17 per cent answered contentment. | |
| Odd Facts | The War Cry - 21st August 2004 |
| An NOP poll found that 71 per cent of 1,912 adults said that they would not be bothered at all, or not very much if larger shops closed on Sundays. | |
| Odd Facts | The Church of England Newspaper - 27th August 2004 |
| A Mencap survey has found that 85 per cent of carers back the idea of a minimum entitlement to short breaks. | |
| Odd Facts | Third Sector - 16th June 2004 |
| 48 per cent of women and 31 per cent of men have voted in a reality TV series in the past five years; 68 per cent of men and 64 per cent of women have voted in an election. | |
| Odd Facts | The Times - 17th September 2004 |
| 15 per cent of men are happy with the way they look compared to 7 per cent of women. 33 per cent of women consider cosmetic surgery, with only one in ten men. 53 per cent of women have been on a diet in the past year compared with 27 per cent of men. Men are more likely to work out in a gym: 38 per cent of men regularly attend compared with 31 per cent of women. 96 per cent believe that divorced or separated parents should have equal rights and responsibilities. 69 per cent of men and 59 per cent of women expect to be wealthier than their parents. | |
| Odd Facts | The Times - 15th September 2004 |
| North Ossetia is the most developed and industrialised Russian republic in the northern Caucasus. The population of 710,000, including 415,000 Ossetians and 200,000 Russians, is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority. They speak Ossetian. Conflict between South Ossetia and Georgia led some 100,000 refugees to North Ossetia in the 1990s, sparking clashes with the Muslim Ingush population. | |
| Odd Facts | The Times - 2nd September 2004 |
| The population of Arab countries is expected to rise from 280 million to somewhere between 410 and 460 million in 2020. | |
| Odd Facts | The Church of England Newspaper - 30th July 2004 |
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