The top ten most popular magazines in the UK by circulation are Asda Magazine (1,980,740, up 1.7% in a year), Tesco Magazine (1,928,687 : 3.5%), Northern and Shell Titles Group (1,394,830 : 6.9%), TV Choice (1,354,761 : 3.5%), What's on TV (1,274,035 :  5.4%), Tesco Real Food (1,216,875 : -2.7%), Morrisons Magazine (1,137,383 : 10.4%), Radio Times (901,036 : -4.9%), Sense Magazine (834,954 : -5.4%) and Take a Break (803,555 : -6.1%). 

The combination ough can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.

Today's 20-year-olds are three times more likely to live to 100 than their grandparents and twice as likely as their parents. A baby born in 2011 is almost eight times more likely to reach their 100th birthday than one born 80 years ago. A girl born this year has a one-in-three chance of reaching 100 years old and boys have a one-in-four chance.

Studies show that a chocolate milkshake is the ideal post-workout recovery drink. Amateur cyclists built more muscle and shaved off more fat if they drank chocolate milkshakes after exercise instead or an isotonic sports drink or good old-fashioned water. University of Texas

The easiest way to become a millionaire is to convert £4 sterling into Turkish Lire.

Every year, the British eat 100 million Big Macs. To make 100 million Big Macs (which have a shelf-life of 10 minutes), you need 1,390 tonnes of sliced cheese, 7.6 million heads of lettuce, 196 million slices of dill pickle and hundreds of thousands of cows.