What we've learned

Trivia. Some interesting, some disturbing. Reprinted from the What we've learned column of today's Guardian newspaper.

• There is somewhere called London on every continent.
• Female prisoners in the US are routinely shackled during childbirth.
• Robert FX Sillerman owns about 600,000 pieces of Elvis memorabilia.
• Britons are the second most frequent visitors to Argentina after its Brazilian neighbours.
• Leonard Cohen once guest-starred on Miami Vice.
• Diet colas have overtaken their full-sugar cousins in UK sales.
• Dickens created 989 named characters.
• Scorpions can have as many as 12 eyes.
• Haggis sales are currently surging in England.
• China produces 90 billion chopsticks a year.