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    Are 672 billion pounds of corn eaten in the US every year?

    A lot of corn is eaten in the United States, but is it really 2.5kg per person per day?

  2. How do you breed seventeen octillion rats?

    Plus, GPs working less, the UK working less, and Wetherspoons wanting to pay less tax.

  3. The puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong

    Alex Bellos sets Tim Harford logical conundrums designed to deceive

  4. Could the winter fuel cut cost more than it saves?

    Plus, ONS transgender stats, early-onset cancer, and puzzles you鈥檙e meant to get wrong.

  5. Do 85% of the world鈥檚 population practice a religion?

    Counting religions across the globe 鈥� is the world getting more religious or less?

  6. How do you count millionaires?

    Plus, asylum seeker costs, private school bets and Baumol's cost disease

  7. Nate Silver: Do risk-takers run the world?

    Poker player and polling analyst Nate Silver on his new book

  8. How long does it take to turn around an oil tanker?

    Plus migrants v pensioners and Ed Miliband鈥檚 energy auction claim.

  9. Who pays when trade wars heat up?

    We look at Donald Trump鈥檚 claim that tariffs are a tax on other countries

  10. Exclusions, black holes and dividing by zero

    Plus special educational needs in Wales and Ghanaian nurses in the UK.

  11. Where have Cuba鈥檚 people gone?

    We investigate the collapse in the Caribbean island鈥檚 population.

  12. Do we eat a credit card's worth of microplastic each week?

    We look at whether humans really ingest five grams of microplastic on a weekly basis

  13. Are companies making more money from their customers?

    We investigate claims mark-ups are larger than ever

  14. Is planet Earth getting greener?

    Jordan Peterson says Earth has greened by 20% in 20 years. Is he right?

  15. Does a language die every two weeks?

    Languages are disappearing. We investigate claims of how often this happens

  16. Are women 14 times more likely to die in natural disasters?

    We unpick the idea that women outnumber men by 14 to 1 as casualties of natural disasters

  17. Is increasing turbulence making flying more dangerous?

    Exploring the link between bumpy flights and climate change.

  18. Federer鈥檚 54%: Tennis stats explained

    How Federer became the best in the world winning just over half the points he played

  19. The magic of trigonometry

    Tim Harford interviews Matt Parker on his latest book 鈥楲ove Triangle鈥�

  20. Election endings, tennis and meeting men in finance

    The UK's money troubles, NHS managers and a 54% chance of winning a point in tennis.

  21. How a tick box doubled the US maternal mortality rates.

    We investigate changes to the way the US gathers their maternal mortality statistics

  22. Election claims and erection claims

    What did Liz Truss do to mortgage rates? Do erections use a litre of blood?

  23. Do 鈥榩ig butchering鈥� cyber scams make as much as half Cambodia鈥檚 GDP?

    We investigate the money made by an international cybercrime operations.

  24. Worse mortgages, better readers, and potholes on the moon

    We check some of the numbers that are flying about in the election campaign.

  25. Shakespeare鈥檚 maths

    Author Rob Eastaway on the numbers in Shakespeare鈥檚 writing

  26. Leaflets, taxes, oil workers and classrooms

    We look at bad graphs, oil rig extrapolations and pupil populations.

  27. Why medical error is not the third leading cause of death in the US

    Investigating how many deaths are caused by mistakes by doctors and nurses

  28. Debate, Reform, tax evasion and ants

    Fact-checking the leaders' debate, tax evasion savings and the weight of ants.

  29. Data for India

    Changing India in numbers: what type of country will the next administration lead?

  30. UK growth, prisons and Swiftonomics

    Is the UK economy growing faster than Germany, France and the US?

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