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Hello and welcome to More or Less, the program which straightens the tie of statistics

and gives them a kiss on the cheek before sending them out to face the day.

This week one of our loyal listeners is told by a dating app that she has 15,000 admirers.

That sounds exhausting, but can't you believe the numbers?

The IMF says that Venezuela will suffer inflation of 10 million percent.

If you want to know what that means and whether it's all a load of bolivars.

But first, last Sunday was Holocaust Memorial Day, a day of solemn remembrance.

But it was also a day of a pulled surprise because a poll was published claiming that...

Many as one in twenty adults in Britain don't believe the Holocaust took place and one in

twelve believed its scale has been exaggerated.

One in twenty Britain's, that would be about three million people not believing that the

Holocaust happened.

The survey said that many others were confused about the details.

So to clear up any uncertainty, at least here, the Holocaust is a name given to the genocidal

murder of around six million Jews, led by the German state under Adolf Hitler's Nazi

government and part of an even bigger policy of systematic murder of a variety of targets,

including the Roma, disabled people, political prisoners and many others.

We've always known that a few people love to claim that this never happened or happened

on a dramatically smaller scale.

But as many as one in twenty, loyal listeners were quick to ask questions.

George Gallant, perhaps best summed up the mood in our inbox.

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