?? Shoplifting, Flights, and Reading Books
Charlie Jones
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$32.5 million ?- ?Auction sale price of a pair of Dorothy's ruby slippers, worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz". They sold this week to become the most valuable piece of movie memorabilia ever sold at auction. ?
184 ?- ?Number of people killed last weekend in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, in violence orchestrated by a powerful gang leader. Monel "Mikano" Felix ordered the murders after a voodoo priest told him that elderly people in the area had made his child ill.
￡55 billion ?- ?Amount that the UK spends on defence each year. This week the House of Representatives approved the US annual defence spend of ￡701 billion - that's three times more than China who is the second biggest spender. The UK ranks number 6 in the world (also behind Russia, India, and Saudi Arabia).
80%? - ?Percentage of your body's water that you can lose on a long haul flight.?
￡2.4 million ?- ?Amount that Mariah Carey makes every year from the royalties of her song "All I Want For Christmas is You".?
95%? - ?Percentage of a car's lifetime that it spends parked.
133 ?- ?Estimated amount added to the cost of an average UK household's shopping bill each year due to shoplifting. Stealing from shops is at record levels with 469,788 offences recorded in England and Wales in the year to June 2024.
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270 ?- ?Number of moon rocks that were given to nations of the world after the Apollo 11 and 17 missions. More than 180 of them have gone missing.?
5 hours 18 minutes ?- ?Average length of time each week that a Brit reads for. This puts the country well down the global league tables (26/30 countries surveyed). Indians read for 10 hours 42 minutes every week.
12 ?- ?Number of days until Christmas day! ?
This Week in History . .
1936 - Edward VIII abdicates the thrown to marry American divorcee Wallis Simpson. Did you know that he was fluent in French and German, had a poodle named Julie, and served as the Governor of the Bahamas from 1940 to 1945?
1913 - The "Mona Lisa" is recovered two years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, had disguised himself as a museum worker, taken it off the wall, wrapped it in his smock, and walked right out of the door.?
2016 - Bob Dylan wins the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm. He did not attend. He's also won an Oscar, a Golden Globe, a Grammy, and a Pulitzer Prize.?
2019 - Boris Johnson becomes Prime Minister in a landslide victory in the General Election.?
What links our facts today? The answer is that the subject of each of them was originally known by another name. Edward VIII was called David by his family and friends; The "Mona Lisa" is "La Gioconda" in de Vinci's native Italian; Bob Dylan was born?Robert Allen Zimmerman; and Boris Johnson was is course really called?Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.?
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