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44million a year, including 30,000 a day for wearing Nike caps - which
Thai workers get 2.20 a day to make.
18 EVERY week an average 88 children are expelled from US schools for
carrying a gun.
19 LANDMINES kill or maim one person every hour.
20 THERE are at least 300,000 prisoners of conscience, often held in
appalling conditions, sometimes tortured, simply for peacefully expressing
their own beliefs.
21 CARS kill two people every minute.
22 THE US owes the United Nations $1bn in unpaid dues. Yet it spends the
same amount on its military programme every 23 hours.
23 TWENTY-SIX million people voted in the 2001 UK General Election. More
than 32 million votes were cast in the first series of Pop Idol.
24 IN Kenya, bribery payments make up a third of the average household
budget.
25 THE world's trade in illegal drugs is estimated to be worth around
225bn - about the same as the world's pharmaceutical industry.
26 TO fly a kiwi fruit from New Zealand to the UK means five times its
weight in greenhouse gases being pumped into the atmosphere.
27 MORE than 150 countries are known to use torture.
28 AMERICANS spend 5.6bn on pornography every year - the same
amount their government spends on foreign aid.
29 THE average urban Briton is caught on camera 300 times a day. With
10 per cent of the world's 30 million CCTV cameras, we are the most
watched nation in the world.
30 IN 2001, 13.2 million Americans and 2.5 million Britons had plastic
surgery.
31 BRAZIL has more Avon ladies than members of its armed forces.
Physical beauty is so highly prized that calling someone vain is a
compliment.
32 EIGHTY-TWO per cent of the world's smokers live in developing
countries.
33 THE world's oil reserves could be exhausted by 2040.
34 MORE than 70 per cent of the world's population has never heard a dial
tone. In Africa just one in 40 people has a phone.
35 A QUARTER of the world's armed conflicts of recent years have