The Syrian city of Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. It reached its peak 2000 years before Rome was founded in 753 BC.
In one day the heart beats around 100.800 times. It pumps through the blood vessels as much blood as it would take to fill about 170 average bathtubs.
The leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro was entered in to the Guinness Book of Records as the target of 683 assassination attempts!
Flies are flying at the speed of 6 km per hour.
The first ski competitions were held in 1893 in Mürzzuschlag in Austria.
In Italy, 95 liters per year of non-carbonated bottled water is drunk per capita, making it the first country in the world in that category.
