Britain By Numbers Top 20 Facts

1. Almost one in five women have gone to work without wearing any underwear.

2. British people eat twice as many baked beans as anybody else in Europe.

3. Eight per cent of men never clean their teeth in the morning.

4. More people believe in ghosts (42 per cent) than in God (38 per cent).

5. Twenty per cent of men claim they can do DIY jobs better than any professional.

6. Most have sex around 4,239 times in their lives.

7. Forty-three per cent of people say they have had sex in a car - 52 per cent of men, 34 per cent of women.

8. Eleven per cent of people do not wash their hands after going to the toilet.

9. Thirty-six per cent do not wash themselves every day.

10. Seventy per cent play the National Lottery.

11. Thirty-nine per cent of people read on the lavatory, while 21 per cent text or talk on the telephone.

12. British people drink 165 million cups of tea every day.

13. Women spend 27.5 minutes in the bathroom, compared to 20.7 minutes for men.

14. Twelve per cent of sick days are fake.

15. British people steal 430,000 gallons of hotel shampoo each year.

16. Sixty-four per cent of women find clothes shopping depressing and ten per cent have cried in the changing room.

17. Nearly one in six children aged between two and 10 are clinically obese.

18. Blackpool is the most popular domestic holiday destination.

19. Women spend three hours a day on housework while men spend 40 minutes.

20. People in Sheffield have the most filings and missing teeth