Round-up, round-up, it’s time for Heads-UP! Let us entertain, shock and entice you with this week’s facts…
- It would cost the average, non-influencer or celebrity human roughly $31,400 a year to maintain the standards of physical beauty represented daily in our Instagram feeds. – Ayesha
- In July 2015, Jane Birkin asked for her name to be removed from Hermès Birkin Croco bag after she found out that live crocodiles were skinned or sawed open on farms to make the accessory. – Cécile
- You spend 33% of your life sleeping and if you live to be 75, that’s 25 years of your life spend sleeping! This little golden nugget was brought to you by the Hustle. – Lynn
- A Disney ad which showed a woman with the words “lift my shirt to see more” over her breasts was banned in 2009. It was an advertisement for the film Adventureland. – Valeria
- The new Nike Ad, ‘Nothing Beats a Londoner’ was filmed on 16mm film instead of digital. Apparently, it was a way to “really capture the texture of the city”. – Bill
- The French backpack known as “cartable” was first created by Le Tanneur. – Laurent