?? Spiders, Flags, and Curry
Charlie Jones
I help businesses build high-performance finance teams | Boost your career ??, networking ??????, health ??, achievement ?? | Founder at Refreshing ??
This is the weekly newsletter from the team at Refreshing - hoping to cheer up your weekend.
90?-?Number of days it takes a drop of water to travel the length of the Mississippi River.?
1958?-?Year that the current American flag was designed - by a high school student as part of a history project. He added 2 new stars to the old design, and rearranged their formation, guessing that Hawaii and Alaska would earn statehood soon after. When President Dwight D Eisenhower phoned him personally to say that the design was approved, his grade was changed from a B-minus to an A.?
1,000?-?First number that contains the letter A.
0?-?Number of burglars caught by the police in neighbourhoods covering nearly half of the country in the past three years. In Sheffield, 104 burglaries were reported and not a single one was solved.?
99%?-?Percentage of rooms that contain a spider.
33rd?-?Ranking of London in the table of the world's most liveable cities. The Austrian capital Vienna topped the league according to an annual report by the Economist. Copenhagen was second and Zurich third.?
￡30,000?-?Average amount that each Brit spends on curry in their lifetime.?
What percentage of the Sahara?Desert is not sand?
(Answer next time)
Last time:
What percentage of Brits find temperatures over 30 degrees C too hot?
The answer is 30%
57% feel it's just right.?
This company has been in the business news this week. But who is it?
Last time it was Heineken
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