The Week In Numbers

The Week In Numbers

A weekly journey through stats, facts, and figures, from the Jones brothers - Charlie and Joe.

Episodes

October 23, 2020 36 mins

Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including

Links to some of the things we mention:

- Honorary US Citizens
- Sign up to our weekly newsletter to accompany this podcast

For more information, please visit www.refreshing.com

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including

Links to some of the things we mention:

- World's oldest trees
- Hottest ever temperatures on earth
- Sign up to our weekly newsletter to accompany this podcast

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including

Links to some of the things we mention:

- Longest legs in the world (pictures)
- 55m ribbon worm
- Sign up to our weekly newsletter to accompany this podcast

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including fat coke and Michelle Obama.

Links to some of the things we mention:

- Sign up to our weekly newsletter to accompany this podcast

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including sinking counties and tall husbands.

Links to some of the things we mention:

- Kick-up world record
World's shortest bus driver
- Sign up to our weekly newsletter to accompany this podcast

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including deserted capitals and VAR.

Links to some of the things we mention:

- Tallest sandcastle ever built
- Record for solving Rubik's cubes underwater (VIDEO)
- Sign up to our weekly newsletter to accompany this podcast

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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September 11, 2020 33 mins

Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including dinner time, animal decline, and fish and chips.

Links to some of the things we mention:

- Last guillotine execution in France
- Sign up to our weekly newsletter to accompany this podcast

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including Beyoncé's perfumes and the world of coffee drinkers.

Links to some of the things we mention:

- The inventor of the first mobile phone
- Sign up to our weekly newsletter to accompany this podcast

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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August 28, 2020 44 mins

Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including animals collapsing, and the rise of veganism.

Links to some of the things we mention:

- Fainting Goats (VIDEO)
- Catalytic Converter theft - gone in 60 seconds (VIDEO)

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including brushing teeth, tomato ketchup and much more.

Links to some of the things we mention:

- Sign up to the weekly newsletter here
- All the Pringles in America
- Volcanic eruption on the site of Krakatoa, from 2018 (video)

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including The Great Week in Numbers 100 Metre Race.

Links to some of the things we mention:

- An upside down waterfall (VIDEO)
- The fastest sprinter in high heels (VIDEO)
- Cyclone Hyachinthe

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including rats, ants, and bikes.

Links to some of the things we mention:

- The Giant Weta (bored man with beast on his face)
- Chan's Megastick
- Chinese swimming pools in a heatwave
- The 100m Wheelie world record (video)

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including rain-forests, greyhounds, and a lot lot more

Links to some of the things we mention:

- The English Mastiff
- Peregrine Falcon Diving
- São Tomé and Principe

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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July 24, 2020 37 mins

Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including Scrabble, Roulette and a lot lot more



For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including DVDs, Dens and a lot lot more

Links to some of the things we mention:

- Forgotify.com
- Netflix DVDs
- The Last Blockbuster
- First item ever sold on Amazon

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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July 10, 2020 45 mins

Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including conjoined twins, frozen rivers, and a lot lot more

Links to some of the things we mention:

- The Bowland Bar
- Tottenham's Goal Line bar
- Uber Boats
- Ronnie and Donnie Galyon

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including Holly Valance, K-pop, and a lot lot more

Links to some of the things we mention:

- BLACKPINK
- Most 'disliked' video on YouTube
- £28 million apartment in One Hyde Park

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including ten-pin bowling, plastic bottles, and a lot lot more

Links to some of the things we mention:
- The man struck by lightning more times than anyone - Roy C Sullivan
- Global Lightning map
- World Record for drinking bottled water (video)
- Pictures of Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including squirting milk from your eyes, falling coconuts, and a lot lot more

Links to some of the things we mention:
Biggest football stadium in the world
Ultra-marathon man
Hannibal and Cannibal

For more information, please visit https://www.refreshing.com/podcast 

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Joe and Charlie Jones discuss the week's facts in numbers.

This week including what you can eat at the Heart Attack Grill, the man with the biggest mouth, and a lot lot more

Some of the  we mention:
World's fattiest burger: https://www.heartattackgrill.com/ 
Finley the dog: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2020/6/this-good-boy-loves-tennis-balls-so-much-he-broke-a-record-620073

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