When a man blows his nose, the air speed that comes out under pressure reaches 160 km per hour.
Every 40 minutes approximately 40 million skin cells die on a man. If we gather them all in one place we could fill up a four-story building.
The first city in the World that has reached one million inhabitants was Rome, around 133 BC. London got its one million inhabitants in 1810, and New York in 1875. Today, there are over 300 cities with more than a million inhabitants.
Scientists claim that every 14 days one language dies. By the end of the 21st century, it is likely that almost half of the approximately 7.000 languages will disappear.
Geese were the first birds domesticated by man.
On the evening when Michael Jordan made 69 points in one game, his teammate Stacey King said: "I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined to score 70 points”.
