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Some facts and figures from yesterdays London 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony, which was just brilliant, not that I'm biased or anything ;)

Audience: An estimated number of 4 billion global audience will watch the ceremonies.

Volunteers: A total of 7,500 volunteers took part in a total of 284 rehearsals.

Animals: 40 sheep, 12 horses, 3 cows, 2 goats, 10 chickens, 10 ducks, 9 geese and 3 sheep dogs.

Technology: The "audience" pixel screen extended around the audience seating area and was made up of 70,799 small panels mounted between the seats. Each of these panels has nine LED pixels - there are nearly 640,000 in total - which are controlled by a central computer.

Olympic Bell: The bell weighs 23 tons.

Olympic Rings: The five Olympic Rings were launched into space carried by four ballons. By the end of the ceremony, the rings reached the stratosphere.

British meadow: The meadow at the center of the stadium used 7,346 square meters of real turf, including crops.

Beds: 320 beds were used in a segment of the show, which honored two of Britain's greatest achievements: its amazing body of children's literature and its National health Service. Almost all the 600 volunteer dancers in this segment work for the NHS.

For the challenge , I thought '501' but I was wearing them so had to make do with my second favourite jean: 512 :)

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