Some false statistics:
- 58% of schoolchildren think that Benjamin Disraeli was a better Prime Minister than Anthony Eden
- You are 15% more likely to be crushed by falling rocks if you're wearing khaki
- Half of all accidents happen when a person becomes distracted from the business at hand while remembering old mistakes and constructing elaborate mental scenarios by which those mistakes might have been avoided
- 40% of the customers who bought Das Kapital also bought The Downing Street Years
- Representative government
- Only one person in ten cheats at Patience
- 99% of people die
- Eight out of ten cats prefer lepidoptery
- Between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, there is a 68% chance that you will fall in love
- Failure is certain
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy equals three stars
- Schools are 10% better now than they were twenty years ago
- When interviewing for a new job, if you wear a red tie or carry a red bag, meet the interviewer's gaze steadily and begin the answer to each question with an example, you are 38% more likely to be hired
- Since the events of the Holocaust became common knowledge in 1945, people have been 32% nicer to each other