Yootha Joyce, born Yootha Joyce Needham, played the role of Mildred Roper, alongside Brian Murphy in the sitcom Man About The House. Another sitcom, George and Mildred followed and ran from 1973 until 1980, the same year she died of liver failure, aged 53.
Dwarfing both the Roman and Mongol Empires, in scale, the British Empire, at its peak in 1922, spanned over a quarter of the world's surface.
The value of land, still technically under the ownership of Queen Elizabeth II, is estimated to be in the region of 12 trillion GBP (£12,000,000,000,000).
The number of bacterial species recently identified within an average belly button numbered 2,368. Around half of those were new to science. There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.