On the podium season 2 is available now.

Like many people in this world I have never seen an Olympic medal before.

Bringing you more remarkable stories of Olympic and Paralympic athletes

and their incredible journeys to the podium.

This is my dream and it's came true that day.

Find out more at the end of this podcast.

Thank you for downloading the more or less podcast.

With a programme that scours the globe for numbers, whether they're big or small,

simple or complex and confusing or clarifying.

And I'm Tim Haferd.

As many of you will know we are here to serve our loyal listeners

and to try to answer the many excellent questions that they pose us every day.

Recently we've had more than one listener write in to more or less at bbc.co.uk

To ask us about a statistic that seems to appear in various forms.

For example, Stella asked,

Does it really take 10,000 litres of water to make one pair of jeans?

This seems to be an often quoted statistic.

While Gillian encountered something similar while watching a British television show.

I heard recently on Richard Osmond's House of Games

that it takes 7,500 litres of water to make one pair of jeans.

Can this be true?

And as we roamed the intertubes, we saw a further claim that

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