According to statistics, the United States annually spends 500.000.000.000 (500 billion) matches.
Every year swallows fly 38.000 kilometers from the northern to the southern hemisphere and back.
The first personal computer was made in January 1975 in the company MITS in New Mexico. It cost about 395 US dollars, and customers had to assemble it by themselves. It was called the Altair 8800.
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.
Ancient Greeks often carried their coins in their mouths, because the clothes did not have pockets.
A single eagle claw has equal power of four human hands.
