AND THEY CALL YOU A LOSER...CONTINUED The Humane Society claim that every year in America 100,000 dogs die after falling out of pick-up trucks. This year, 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly. 55 per cent of US deaths occur, at least in part, because of animal product consumption, with weener-guzzling yanks eating their way to medical bills exceeding $60 Billion every year. A wayward 51 cars that veer from the roads of Amsterdam every year have to be hauled from the city's canals. At any given moment 0.7 per cent of the worlds population are seriously drunk, a third of whom will cause injury to themselves or others while intoxicated. At least one American will be killed and eaten by their own pet python every year. Around 100 Million acts of intercourse take place in the world every day ...giving rise to 356,000 cases of venereal disease. A reckless 320 people will die in England and Wales this year due to the effects of a "foreign body entering through orifice". 25 per cent of all plastic surgery requires further surgery at a later date to rectify the mess left by their original operation. American hospital patients stand a one in fifteen chance of contracting an illness while in hospital due to human negligence. This year 50 patients will return to British hospitals to complain of objects such as swabs, medical instruments and needles being left inside their bodies after operations. 22 per cent of antibiotics prescribed in America this year will be unnecessary, and play a part in the 10,000 cases where patients die or come close to death because of misdiagnosed antibiotics. 5 per cent of Canadians do not know the first seven words of their national anthem, but know the first nine of their US neighbours national anthem. 7 per cent of Americans do not know the first nine words of their national anthem, but do know the first seven of the Canadian national anthem. Global telecoms services lose 1,314 phone calls every minute. Falling vending machines will kill 13 people over the next 12 months. More than 2,500 left handed people are killed in America each year using products made for right handed people. Every year around 5.5 million Brits are bullied into buying things they don't want over the phone. 22 per cent of Americans are functionally illiterate. Every year in the UK, 11,000 amorous Brits are injured while trying new or ambitious sexual positions. A colossal 12 million Americans are unable to name Washington DC as their capital city. Helpfully for managers of McDonalds takeaways, a mentally vacant 12.5 per cent of school leavers in the UK will depart without any qualifications next year. Twelve new born babies are given to the wrong parents every day. There is currently a 56 to 73 per cent rate of misdiagnosis amongst interns in American hospitals. Thailand's New Year celebrations claim an average 164 lives every year. This is due largely as a result of lax drink-driving laws combined with the country's custom of throwing water at strangers, (a ritual that washes evil spirits away)...and makes roads slippery.