Interesting Facts

According to a study carried out in Taiwan, shopping can help you live longer. (The study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, found that elderly people who shop every day have a lower risk of dying over a 10-year period than those who don't shop as often. The study stated, "... compared to other types of leisure-time physical activity like formal exercise, which usually requires motivation and sometimes professional instruction, shopping activity is easier to undertake and maintain. ... Shopping captures several dimensions of personal well-being, health and security as well as contributing to the community’s cohesiveness and economy and may represent or actually confer increased longevity." Time to shut down the laptop and grab the shopping bag.) Source  This one has to be for  +april sis .  It's purely medicinal.  :)

According to figures compiled by local councils, London is the most expensive place to die in the UK. (It costs up to 60x more for a basic burial or cremation in London than some other parts of the UK. The borough of Lambeth is the most expensive place at a whopping £5,329. But if you want to be buried or cremated in Nottingham, it costs just £87.)

Around 430,000 cremations take place in Britain each year. (There is a problem though - obesity. Standard coffins range from 16-20 inches, but, because of growing obesity coffins up to 40 inches are becoming increasingly common and crematoriums are having to widen their furnaces.)

We are more likely to die in our sleep because our brains can forget to tell our bodies to breathe. (This is more a worrying fact than an interesting one. I will try to remind myself to breathe tonight, but if you don't hear from me for a while, you'll know what's happened.)