In fact...

September 19, 2012
There are 83m fake Facebook accounts Daily Mail, 2nd August 2012

The phrase “American exceptionalism” was coined in 1929 by Josef StalinThe New Republic, 3rd August 2012

In the early 1990s, Kim Jong Il imposed a ban on women riding bicycles in urban areas following the death of his general’s daughter. It was lifted in July this year. Orange News, 20th August 2012

Capuchin monkeys refuse to participate in an experiment if another monkey is seen to get greater reward for participating. They react even more negatively if the other monkey does nothing at all for its reward. Nature, 23rd July 2012

In Italian, there is a word for a summer hit song that is played everywhere you go: tormentone. BBC, 26th August 2012

Manchester City football club has four data analysts attached to its first team and six more for other teams down to the club’s Under-9s. The Guardian, 16th August 2012

The first weather forecast calculated mathematically took six weeks to calculate and only forecast six hours. Wired, 13th August 2012

Sixty-five years after independence, of the 28 states in India only 9 have been officially declared totally electrified. BBC, 31st July 2012

Dogs can shake 70 per cent of the water from their fur in four seconds. The Atlantic, 15th August 2012