Some Random Facts_14

1.       90% of Britons eat pizza at least once a week.

2.       The Statue of Liberty employs gum-cleaning staff who use specially designed "GumBuster" machines.

3.       A grasshopper becomes more sociable if you stroke its hind legs.

4.       In Sweden, IKEA is pronounced "ee-kay-uh" not "eye-kee-ah". The word is made up of the initials of the founder's name and the village he grew up in.

5.       During Germany's hyperinflation that peaked in 1923, a loaf of bread cost 428 billion marks and a kilo of butter would run you roughly 6 trillion.

6.       32% of journeys in Amsterdam are by bicycle, while in Copenhagen it's 35%.

7.       The Quandt family, one of the richest in Germany and the largest shareholder of BMW, took over scores of Jewish businesses and used tens of thousands of slave labourers at its factories during Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

8.       U.S. television networks allow alcohol to be advertised as long as no one in the commercial is actually drinking it.