The Cambridge Factfinder 4th edition

When I was about 10 or 11, I remember, I bought a small paper‐covered book in Woolworths for about ninepence or a shilling which contained, beside conversion tables and a ready reckoner (we are talking very pre‐calculator days here ‐ and my automatic spell‐check has just highlighted the word “ninepence”), a whole range of interesting miscellaneous facts of the kind children love: the tallest this, the oldest that. I do remember that, living as I then did, a short distance outside North London, I was particularly struck by the world’s longest tunnel being listed as the London Underground service’s Northern...