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10 Things I learnt in July from calling the speaking clock to skinny wives, pyjamas in bed, stick insect sex and buying female hedge funds by Marketing Society editor, Elen Lewis
The key to a happy marriage is based on the wife remaining slimmer than the husband.
Only 3 per cent of hedge funds are run by women. But in the last nine years, female-managed hedge funds have outperformed male-managed ones by 55 per cent.
Lions will most likely attack humans just after a full moon.
The Speaking Clock still receives 30 million calls each year.
Stick insects can go without sex for one million years.
The ideal slice of toast should be cooked for exactly 216 seconds.
Listening to the radio is what makes Britons happiest.
Less than 15 per cent of Wikipedia’s contributors are women.
More than four in ten Britons wear pyjamas, up from 29 per cent in 2000.
The most boring day in history was 11th April 1954: a general election was held in Belgium, Turkish academic Abdullah Atalar was born and footballer Jack Shufflebotham died—but that was it.
Posted: July 25th, 2011 | Author: elen.lewis | Filed under: 10 Things | Tags: 10 Things, elen lewis | Leave a Comment »
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