"The prison population of England and Wales has hit a new record high of 86,608 people," thanks to several hundred young rioters being held in the system. Yup: 86,000 people are in prison out of a population of 53,390,300. Yeah… so that's .0016% of England and Wales. (The U.S. has about 2,300,000 people in prison, out of 307,006,550 people—almost five times as many, by population.)

Guess what? This means England has surpassed its tragic colony, old Prisoncrime Island, in rates of imprisonment—with all of 22 million people, Australia has only like 30,000 people in prison. (Though they're trying desperately to up their rates!)

Russian soccer fans traveling to Wales in September for a World Cup qualifying match have been urged to drink whiskey to help avoid Swine Flu infection. I had no idea I'd been taking preventative measures against the virus all this time!

"There was something absolutely surreal about being on a beach with 400 naked bodies. It's not a sight you see very often." —Allison Powell, who gathered a record-setting number of people to take part in a group skinny dip at the beach at Rhossili on Gower in South Wales on Sunday, discusses the event. Breaking the old record by some 150 fully exposed bodies, Powell and her fellow nudists raised $24 thousand for the Marie Curie Cancer Care and the National Trust. "The weather was nice, just a bit overcast, but the sea temperature wasn't really cold at all," Powell said, which is different from what all the [...]