Number Crunch

John Croucher's 'Number Crunch' column in Fairfax's "Good Weekend" magazine has a cult following. Every week he gives us numbers and statistics of the everyday and the bizarre. Trivia buffs delight in discovering the facts both arcane and everyday: from the longest ear hair (5.19 inches, Radhakant Bajpai, India), to the average life expectancy of a beaver in captivity (5 years) to the proportion of doctors in China who smoke (57 per cent). Now the very best of 'Number Crunch' have been collected into a single volume.