Proportion of Canadians who received at least 1 gift last Christmas that they didn't like, didn't fit into or couldn't use: 34%
Proportion who returned the unwanted gift: 26%
Proportion who use the unwanted gift, even though they don't like it: 18%
Proportion who regifted: 25%
Proportion of Canadians who own at least 1 pair of blue jeans: 87%
Proportion who own 6 or more pairs: 23%
Reduction in the number of plastic bags circulating in Ireland in the last year following the introduction of a 10-cent per bag tax: 1 billion
Number of plastic shopping bags used in the United Kingdom last year: 8 billion
Number of pieces of plastic floating in each square mile of our oceans: 46 000
Proportion of Canadians who claim to eat a well-balanced, healthy diet most of the time: 73%
Proportion who, on the day before they were surveyed, ate 5 servings of fruits and vegetables as recommended by the Canada Food Guide: 17%
Proportion of Canadian children with obese parents who will become obese due to a combination of genetic and lifestyle factors: 80%
Proportion of adult Canadians who become frustrated when they see other drivers multi-tasking on the road: 87%
Proportion who have multi-tasked while driving at least once this past year: 76%
Proportion of adult Canadians who agree that wearing a helmet for cycling, skateboarding and inline skating can prevent serious injury: 97%
Proportion who wear a helmet while cycling: 40%
Age of Harriet, the Galapagos land tortoise brought to England by Sir Charles Darwin and the oldest known living creature on earth: 171 years
Average lifespan of a Galapagos land tortoise: 150 years
… of a hummingbird: 8 years
… of a Queen ant: 15 years
… of an elephant: 69 years
Estimated number of deaths caused by the Great Smog of London in 1952: 4000
Estimated weight of smoke particles sent into air above London each day of the Great Smog: 1000 tonnes
Proportion of fine particulates in Canadian air attributable to residential combustion of wood: 25%
Number of kg of oxygen produced annually by a healthy tree: 118
Average annual oxygen consumption of a person at rest at 20 degrees C: 182 kg
Proportion of all holiday floral arrangements purchased for Christmas and Hanukkah: 33%
Proportion of Christmas and Hanukkah floral arrangements purchased by women: 80%
Proportion purchased for themselves: 51%
Age of the 3 oldest Nobel laureates: 87
Age of the youngest: 25
Number of people who attended this year's IgNobel Awards: 1200
Year that William Lipscomb, the prize in the IgNobel's 2002 Win-a-date-with-a-Nobel-Laureate Contest, won his Nobel prize: 1976
Year when the first known Christmas card was printed: 1843
Number of greeting cards purchased in the US every year: 7 billion
Christmas card sales as a proportion of all individual seasonal card sales: 25%