We took a poll, and 72 percent of BRI employees thought there were too many polls out there.
• The winner in a 2009 British poll for “Best Celebrity Mom”: Britney Spears—who, only two years earlier, briefly lost custody of her children after a mental breakdown and had to undergo parental counseling.
• In 1995 two University of Wisconsin researchers published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry perhaps the most exhaustive research ever conducted on nosepicking. Their polling found that 66 percent of people pick their noses “to relieve discomfort or itchiness,” while only 2 percent did so “for entertainment.” Most common finger used: the index finger (65 percent).
• In a recent poll, 35 percent of parents admitted that that they play video games when their kids aren’t home.
• A European pollster asked 15,000 women from 20 European countries to rate European men on their lovemaking habits. German men were ranked as the worst lovers because they were “too smelly.” Second worst: the English, who were “lazy” lovers. (The best: Spanish men.)
• A 2010 New York Times/CBS News poll found that 70 percent of Americans support “gay men and women” openly serving in the military. In the same poll, however, only 60 percent of respondents said they support “homosexuals” serving openly in the military.
• In 2009 Travel and Leisure magazine asked 60,000 Americans to rate 30 cities in various categories. The city with the “least physically attractive” citizens: Philadelphia. It also ranked near the bottom on cleanliness, friendliness, and safety.
• According to a 2006 Washington Post poll, 79 percent of Americans believe they are “above average” in appearance, 86 percent feel they are “above average” in intelligence, and 94 percent believe they are “above average” in honesty.
In 2006 Dong Changsheng of China pulled a 3,300-lb. car 32 feet…using his lower eyelids.