Some funny facts a.k.a. Dancing raisins

Here's something else to make you giggle, contributed by a long-time fan of the blog; a few fun facts for you.

• Of the 91,000 eastern Europeans who arrived in Britain to work in the five months after EU enlargement, fewer than 15 have claimed benefits
• More houses in China have a DVD player than running hot and cold water
• In the US, 12 per cent of Coca-Cola is consumed with or for breakfast
• When India's Sachin Tendulkar bats against Pakistan in test matches, the television audience in India exceeds the total population of Europe
• According to some semitic language specialists, the 72 "virgins" that Muslim martyrs can expect to encounter in heaven may actually be "raisins"-owing to a long-established mistranslation of the Koran
• By law, every child in Belgium must take harmonica lessons
• In 1982, a law was passed in Zimbabwe banning jokes about President Canaan Banana's name