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Article: We run over 273 hedgehogs a day, make love 4,239 times in our lives and eat twice as many baked beans as anyone else on Earth; Tantalising titbits about the world's 79th largest nation (us!).(News)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2009
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OF COURSE we should be careful with statistics. We must treat them like a drunk uses a lamp-post -- for support rather than illumination. But a new book reveals some mindboggling facts and figures about the British. Did you know the average gym member covers 468 miles each year, but the average dog walker does an impressive 676? Here are the best of the rest ...
FAMILY LIFE
The average age of the first-time grandparent is 49
The average length of marriage is 11.5 years
92 per cent of couples stick to the same side of the bed each night
On average, men sleep for eight hours and four minutes and women for eight hours and 18 ...