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The world's car population has grown five times as fast as the human population in the past 50 years. In 2001, there were 555 million cars in the world.
Pornography accounts for up to 30 per cent of all internet traffic. The only words entered in search engines more than "sex" are "and" and "the".
The global prostitution industry was worth £34 billion last year. Two in three women working in brothels in London have come from Eastern Europe.
Viagra has been prescribed to more than 17 million men worldwide.
Twenty two per cent of UK adults are unable to read or write well enough to function in everyday society, compared with 14 per cent in Germany.
Homosexuality is still banned in 22 American states.
There were 2,468 executions in China in 2001, compared with 66 in the US.
One third of the world's population is malnourished - that's two billion people, although there is enough food in the world to feed everybody.
At £200 billion, the military spending bill in the US is more than Russia, China, Japan, the UK, France, Germany, Saudi Arabia, Italy, India and South Korea combined.
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