One in every 3,400 Americans is an Elvis impersonator. * By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons. * Lauren Bacall and Shimon Peres are first cousins. * 5.8 per cent of people ever born are alive today. * Each successive monarch faces in a different direction on British coins. * When India’s Sachin Tendulkar bats against Pakistan in test matches, the television audience in India exceeds the total population of Europe. * Queen Victoria spoke Urdu and Hindi. * The word ‘boredom’ did not exist in the English language until after 1750. * Peanuts are used as an ingredient in dynamite. * Of all heart attacks, around 6 per cent occur during sexual intercourse. Of these, 90 per cent happen during extramarital sex. * In 1949, there were 160,000 young Conservatives; today, there are 3,000.