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Amazon tops the smart speaker market, enjoying a 30% market share. Artificial intelligence statistics rate the Amazon Alexa as performing best at providing general information with 93% accuracy, a better outcome that any other category.

Toy manufacturer Lego holds the world record for tyre production. In 2010, Lego’s tyre output was 381 million units, double Bridgestone’s marketleading production in 2011 of 190 million.

Business travellers account for 12% of passengers on airlines. However, as the business traveller pays higher rates than most customers, this market segment is much more lucrative to the airlines and nets up to 75% of an airline’s profits.

When Theodor Geisel was caught drinking gin as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College, he was banned from writing for the College’s humour magazine. To side-step this ban, he submitted articles using his middle name, Suess, going on to achieve fame as children’s author Dr Seuss.

In 1950, Bic launched its massproduced ballpoint pen. Since then, the company has sold over 100 billion ballpoint pens, which is enough to draw a line to the moon and back over 320,000 times.

Every problem is a gift we would not grow without problems “ “

– Anthony Robbins –

According to mycologists, there are approximately between 2.2 and 3.8 million different species of fungi in the world, yet only 8% of fungi have been

The Dulux Colour of the Year 2022 is Bright Skies, properly recorded.

“a light, airy and optimistic blue” which the paint manufacturer describes as “good for the soul”. Dulux suggests this colour as an option for ceilings, not just for walls. The self-driving car market is approaching $173 billion in

Less than 2% of people in the world have natural red global revenue, and an annual hair, the result of a recessive genetic trait that must be growth rate of 36%.

carried by both parents, regardless of their hair colour. Red-haired people are also more sensitive to pain as these same genes also affect their pain perception. By 2021, there were 3.8 billion smartphone global users, meaning about 48% of the world’s population own one. In 2020, 1.57 billion smartphones were sold around the world. In an average day, a phone user touches their device over 2,600 times. That amounts to 1.8 clicks, taps, or swipes every minute throughout the day.