chew on this but do not spit it out without thinking

Do you know that:

…Paris is the most expensive city to live in, as at 2010.

…as at 2009, the G7 countries are only 44% of the way towards meeting the 2010 targets for aid to Africa.

…China has already overtaken Japan to become the world’s second largest economy.

…the most expensive artwork ever auctioned is a sculpture by Alberto Giacometti sold for US$104.3 million in 2010.

…one in six adults in the 33 OECD countries is obese (having a BMI of 30 or more).

…some 7.7 million children under the age of five will die in 2010 alone.

…China is now the single largest exporter of goods in the world.

…China executes more of its own citizens than any other country, and more than all others in the world combined.

…between 2000 and 2010, the net loss of forest in the world was 5.2m hectares per year, an improvement compared with 8.3m in the previous decade.

…Facebook now has more than 500m members, more than the third most populous nation on earth.

…global life expectancy will reach 72.5 years in 2010, bringing the number of people aged 65 and over to 523m, or 7.6% of the world population.

…the proportion of the world’s urban population living in slums has fallen from nearly 40% a decade ago to less than a third today. But the absolute number of slum dwellers around the world, estimated to be 830m, is still rising.

…two-thirds of the 5.5m people aged 15-24 living with HIV are female.

…in America, the lifetime gross earnings of male graduates are, on average, nearly US$370,000 higher than those of non-graduates.

…global military expenditure rose by 4% in 2008 to a record US$1.46 trillion.

…nearly one in five deaths in rich countries is caused by smoking.

…Africa is NOT a country but is made up of 54 sovereign states, including various island groups.