In the year 1900, the number of human population was 1.5 million, of whom a quarter lived in Europe.
Dried bananas have four times more nutrition than fresh ones.
People who spend the most time in front of television sets are Japanese. They spend on average 9 hours in front of the TV.
During the Secession war troops would return to their cartels with a big sign that read “0 Killed”. From that, the phrase O.K. derived from.
You are two times more likely to be killed by a vending machine than a shark.
If a book of average size would contain all of the insect’s names, it would have about 6.000 pages, as our planet has more than 900.000 known species.