How to Make a Camel Smoothie: .And Other Surreal Sums

Bill Gates' fortune is worth $31,004,950,033.64. Stacked in single bills it would reach 3379.94 kilometres - 8871.2 Empire State Buildings. Laid end to end it would stretch 3,004,579.2 miles - to the moon and back 6.2 times. Laid out flat it would cover 121.21 square miles and would represent nearly 55% of all the paper dollars in existence.



He's a rich man. And yet, so we're told, it's easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle than to get Bill Gates into heaven. But how do you get a camel through that needle anyway? Using his unique number freaking technique, Gary Rimmer has all the answers.



From sex to physics, from cookery to psychology - you need this book.



- When will America collide with Japan?



- How many cigarettes do the Chinese smoke in a day?



- How many people on Earth are drunk right now?



- What's a decent boyfriend really worth?



- Where do adult women outnumber men?



- Why did Elvis die of a cycling deficit?



Crack cocaine for the arithmetic addict, How to Make a Camel Smoothie is packed full of absurd arithmetic and delightfully superfluous statistics. Learn how many people have ever lived, how long your fingernails will grow in a lifetime and how to cure Third World Debt - and much, much more essential info for modern life.