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Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
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A pocket-size history of the calculator
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Is Oxfam right about the world’s richest and poorest people?
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Are there more possible games of chess than atoms in the universe?
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Do we see 10,000 adverts per day?
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Deaths, taxes and missing cats
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How much money do the ‘Ndrangheta mafia make?
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Numbers of the year 2023
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Can chocolate be better than salad?
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China’s missing numbers
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Does endurance sport harm your heart?
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Will there be a billion climate refugees?
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A boy meets girl meets stats story
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Are women in the UK the biggest binge drinkers in the world?
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Can maths prove the existence of aliens?
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Do Indian women own 11% of the world’s gold?
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The Overlooked Mathematicians of History
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What do windscreen splats tell us about insect decline?
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Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap
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Are half the words in English from French?
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Vaccine claims, Alzheimer's treatment and Tim's Parkrun times
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Is the UK really ahead in cutting carbon emissions?
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NHS consultant pay, Net Zero claims and Scotland's ferry woes
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Which city has the longest canals?
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Social housing, NHS workforce and Liz Truss debt claims
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How to approach the world through numbers
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Skin cancer, London rents and your great great great granddaughter
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Did 35,000 Americans die building the Panama Canal?
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Covid deaths, North Sea gas and Chloe Kelly's World Cup penalty
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What percentage of our brain do we actually use?
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HS2 and electric cars, UK vs China emissions & massive maths errors
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How safe is the release of Fukushima nuclear plant water?
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How many butterflies are there in the world?
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Why is it so hard to predict the outcome of competitions like the Premier League...
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Are the media exaggerating how hot it is in the Mediterranean?
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Data, extreme weather and climate change
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Ukraine war: A new way of calculating Russian deaths
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Are more adult nappies sold in Japan than baby ones?
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Does it take 10,000 litres of water to make a pair of jeans?
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Immigration: A More or Less Special Programme
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Will there be just 6 grandchildren for every 100 South Koreans?
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Halving inflation, Scottish tidal power and have 1 in 3 women had an abortion?
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US National Debt: is $32 trillion a big number?
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Mortgages, birth rates and does space contribute 18% to UK GDP?
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