Interesting Facts

According to a survey by Topcashback.co.uk, Brits are paying out around £150 a year for subscriptions they no longer use. (The worst culprit is gym membership, followed by newspaper or magazine subscriptions, and TV and music streaming services like Netflix, or Spotify. Most people take out a free trial period, and then forget to cancel.   I'm actually subscribing to a newspaper and I keep meaning to cancel it!) 

According to career website, CareerCast.com, the people with the worst jobs in the US are newspaper reporters. (The five worst jobs were:- Oil-rig worker Actor Enlisted military personnel Lumberjack Newspaper reporter The top five jobs were:- Actuary Biomedical engineer Software engineer Audiologist Financial planner Poor old Clark Kent.)

According to the Office for National Statistics sex workers and drug dealers add £9.7 bn to the GDP of the UK. (This amount is the same contribution as farming, and only slightly less than book and newspaper publishers. It will be categorised under "Miscellaneous Goods and Services", which also includes life insurance, personal care products and post office charges. It's nice to see everyone doing their bit.)