The 'Ponderables' section of the Sunday Express 'Did you know?" column often throws up some quite interesting facts and statistics. Yesterday's was no exception and i offer a couple here.
Bad news. You are 176 times more likely to be murdered than you are to win the jackpot in the National Lottery.
In order to mate, a male deep-sea anglerfish will bite a female when he finds her. The male will never let go and will eventually merge his body into the female and spend the rest of his life inside his female mate.
It gets worse, Naomi. Just googled said fish and discovered that, as it merges with the female, it looses it's eyes and all internal organs, except the testes. And a female anglerfish will carry 6 or more males on her body.
wow what a lady fish ! if you were one ladies who apart from your partner/hubby would you like to "join" you in there ? here goes .....Johnny Depp, Cillian Murphy[Peaky Blinders], Anson Mount and I quite like Common [[both from Hell on Wheels] and perhaps I will leave the last one for now ....
Not added to this as i had intended, so here's a couple from today's offerings;
The telephone number 666-6666 went for £1.4m in an auction in Qatar.
The Great Dane is the most expensive dog to keep; the Jack Russell is the cheapest.
Taking into account the stairs, barriers and other time consuming aspects of Tube Travel, there are 109 different London Underground journeys that are quicker to walk.