Interesting Facts

According to the Halifax bank, the average Brit believes they have £1.61 lurking down the back of their sofa. (This means home owners are sitting on more than £40 million in loose change.  And that's not the only place you'll find a few pennies lying around: Two-thirds of people admit to regularly finding loose coins in pockets, bags and cars, but desk drawers usually contain the largest amount of cash. On average, people believe they have £17.69 just lying around the UK. Can you guess what I'm going to do now?)

The longest sofa measures just over 1 kilometre (3,302 ft 6 in). (It was created in Saratov, Russia by furniture company Mnogo Mebeli, who created the sofa to mark their fifth anniversary. I wonder what they'll do to celebrate their 10th! It is already in the Guinness Book of Records.) Post by The Learn English Network .

Gangster Al Capone had business cards that listed him as a used furniture dealer. (He really did try to develop an air of respectability and lived in a modest house in a middle-class Chicago neighbourhood with his wife and son, his mother and siblings. He even told neighbours that he was a second hand furniture dealer. I guess you never really know who lives next to you, or what they get up to in their sheds.)