A 2009 calendar made from 6kg of pure gold and measuring 67x42cm is on sale in Japan – it has an estimated price tag of $444,000

During the finale of this year’s Australian Idol, Channel 10 made $785,000 per hour from phone voting

New research has revealed that deaf dogs are intelligent enough to understand sign language 

When given the choice between models of size 8, 12 and 14, 41% per cent of Aussie blokes said they preferred size 12, 39% said size 14 and 20% went for size 8 


According to latest figures, there are currently around 1.31 billion overweight people in the world

During the recent US presidential elections, two American astronauts cast their votes from space 

Women have more bacteria on their hands than men. Scientists reckon it’s because women produce more oil and have less acidic skin 

Chinese man Zhang Kui successfully woke his wife out of her coma last week by biting her toes 


An Italian white truffle weighting just over a kilogram recently sold at auction for $200,000 

Forty per cent of countries allow smoking in their public hospitals 

An anti-slavery letter written in 1864 by then US president Abraham Lincoln recently sold for nearly $4m at auction

The busiest underground railway network in the world is Tokyo’s, with 2.64 billion passengers passing through it every year 

 
Greenland has been officially known as Kalaallit Nunaat since 1979 (it simply means “Land of the Greenlanders” in Danish) 

A 78-year-old Swedish woman recently misread the signs at Stockholm Airport and placed herself on the baggage belt.... which lead to a chute. Fortunately, she was only slightly injured

According to a new survey, eighty-four per cent of young people aren’t worried about catching HIV