TOPIC: Sex and gender
#56: Studies have shown that smokers have significantly reduced bone mass compared to non-smokers. This increases the likelihood of needing a hip replacement by 31 per cent in women and 40 per cent in men. read more
#45: 6'1": The average adult male height in the Netherlands, making Dutch men the world's tallest. read more
#44: 38 274 cosmetic procedures were carried out in the UK in 2010. 90 per cent of these were on women. read more
#43: The tallest man in history was 8'11" (2.72 m). The current world's shortest man is 1'11.6" (59.9 cm). read more
#42: Human eggs are made in the embryo, so the egg cell that fused with a sperm to become you was actually produced around six months before your mum was born. read more
#40: A man makes 1500 sperm per heartbeat. read more
#27: Women wake up from anaesthesia nearly twice as fast as men. read more
#26: There were more than three times as many suicides among males as among females in the UK in 2009. read more
#25: Research suggests that aspirin protects men against heart attack but not stroke, yet it protects women against stroke but not heart attack. read more
#24: Girls born today are expected to live 4.2 years longer than boys, although this gap is gradually narrowing. read more
#23: Even allowing for size differences, women have disproportionately smaller feet than men. read more
#22: Of the 1.42 million offenders that were sentenced for criminal offences in England and Wales in 2006, 80 per cent were male. read more
#021: In 2008, 51.9 per cent of girls and 41.2 per cent of boys in the UK achieved two or more A levels or equivalent. read more
