Shredded books are used in capacity of sound absorber to make roads. A mile of motorway consumes about 50,000 books. In construction of British M6 Toll Road 2 500 000 old Mills and Boon novels were used.

Pantone was founded in the 1960s as a small business that manufactured color cards for cosmetic companies.

One in every 12 500 000 spam e-mails gets a response. At this rate spammers controlling a network of 1 million computers may make about 4,430 pounds a day or 2.21 millions a year.

About 6,000 satellites have been put into orbit so far.

The record amount paid for a domain name was $14m for sex.com in 2007.