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I thought these were interesting (via the Bozeman Bike Kitchen):

Pedal power
A cyclist can travel 1,037km (644 miles) on the energy equivalent of one litre of petrolRegular cycling can make you as fit as someone who is ten years youngerA cyclist consumes 1/50th of the oxygen of a car making the same journeyA twice daily half-hour commute will, over a year, consume the energy equivalent of 24lb of fatIn 1949, 34 per cent of all mechanised journeys were made by bicycle. Fifty years later that figure had fallen to 2 per centThe rate of serious heart disease for civil servants who cycle 20 miles or more a week is 50 per cent lower than for their sedentary colleaguesSource: Somerset County Council