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1. Knitting was originally a Male-Only Occupation

2. On average you burn 55 calories for every half an hour of knitting

3. Knitting helps you to relax and can therefore have a positive impact on your blood pressure, heart rate and generally help reduce illness

4. Professor Dumbledore was totally into knitting.

5. Miriam Tegels from the Netherlands is currently the world's fastest knitter, knitting 118 stitches in one minute which is just short of 2 stitches per second! 

6. Celebrities known for their love of knitting include – Ryan Gosling, Sarah Jessica-Parker, Cameron Dias, Amanda Seyfried and Julia Roberts.

7. There is a Guinness world record set for ‘Longest Scarf Knitted Whilst Running a Marathon’ held by David Babcock in the USA (of course) who took up running at the same time he learnt to knit and didn’t have time to do both separately. He ran the Kansas City Marathon in 5 hours 48mins 27 seconds and in that time knit a scarf 3.7m long.

8. There are over 1 million youtube videos about knitting.

9. According to ravelry.com the most popular day of the year to finish knitting projects is December 24th and the least popular day, when apparently very few are knitting is May 24th.

10. The record for the most people knitting simultaneously happened in September 2012 in Royal Albert Hall, London, when 3,083 people knitted together for 15 minutes.

11. Because wool was scarce during the early days of knitting, other material, such as cotton and silk, were popular knitting materials.

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