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• Five hundred Britons are leaving the UK every day to live in the sun or find work abroad, according to the Office of National Statistics. A record 380,000 people left the country in 2005.

• Comics account for 25% all book sales in South Korea.

• Traffic injuries are the leading cause of death in people ages 10 to 24 around the world, according to the World Health Organisation.

• Nearly 182,000 new items were launched globally during 2006, according to market analysts Mintel. Food and drink products made up nearly 105,000 of the releases - around 290 new goods for every day of the year.

• More than a third of American adult internet users (36%) consult the citizen-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to a new nationwide survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And on a typical day in the winter of 2007, 8% of online Americans consulted Wikipedia.