?? Kids, KFC, and the High Jump
Charlie Jones
I help businesses build high-performance finance teams | Boost your career ??, networking ??????, health ??, achievement ?? | Founder at Refreshing ??
THE WEEK IN NUMBERS
sent weekly since 2014
?69?-??Greatest recorded number of children born to one woman.
1968?-??Year that Dick Fosbury won gold in the high jump at the Mexico Olympics with his revolutionary "Fosbury Flop" technique. He died this week aged 76.?
69%?-??Share of electricity from nuclear in France. The figure for the UK is 15%.
62?-??Age of Colonel Sanders when he founded KFC. Charles Flint was 61 when he founded IBM. Gordon Bowker was 51 when he founded Starbucks.?
700 BC?-??Year of the oldest known parking restrictions. They were in Nineveh, Assyria, and the penalty for parking your chariot on a prohibited road was death.?
30%?-??Chance that the first digit of a real-life numerical set starts with a 1 (if you found a number on any website, paper, book, etc). The chance of it being a 9 is less than 5%. It's called Benford's law after the physicist Frank Benford.?
10:43 pm?-??Average bedtime for adults in Britain. 50% admit the last thing they touch before turning off the light is a smartphone or tablet.
GUESS THE NUMBER
What % of pet owners admit to having shared?an ice-cream cone with their pet?
(Answer next time)
Last time:
What percentage of countries have women Heads of State?
The answer is 11.3%??
That's 17 out of 151 countries. 9.8% have women Heads of Government (19 out of 193).?
LOGO of the week
This company has been in the business news this week. But who is it?
Last time the answer was BMW
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