Mars has five mountains taller than mount Everest

Visualising 8 Billion People 🌏

Ranked by % of Population

1. East Asian (~25%): Blended Han Chinese, Japanese, Korean traits

2. South Asian (~23%): Blended Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi traits

3. Sub-Saharan African (~14%): Blended West, East, and Southern African traits

4. European (~10%): Blended Northern, Southern, and Eastern European traits

5. Southeast Asian (~9%): Blended Vietnamese, Thai, Indonesian traits

6. Latin American/Hispanic (~8%): Blended Indigenous American, European, and African traits

7. Middle Eastern/North African (~6%): Blended Arab, Persian, Berber traits

8. Central Asian/Turkic (~2%)

9. Indigenous Peoples (~2%): Blended Native American, Aboriginal Australian traits

10. Other/Mixed Descent (~1%)

3% of everyone on earth alive in 1939 died in World War 2.

Asia's Most Powerful Passports (2025)

60% of companies fire Gen Z employees within months of hiring.

6 in 10 employers say they’ve already fired some of the Gen Z grads they hired fresh out of college earlier this year, according to a recent ‘Intelligent’ survey.

Maximum allowable speed limit, km/h:

🇩🇿 Algeria → 120
🇦🇷 Argentina → 130
🇦🇹 Austria → 130
🇧🇩 Bangladesh → 80
🇧🇷 Brazil → 120
🇧🇬 Bulgaria → 140
🇨🇦 Canada → 120
🇨🇳 China → 120
🇨🇩 DR Congo → 110
🇪🇹 Ethiopia → 100
🇫🇷 France → 130
🇩🇪 Germany → Unlimited
🇬🇷 Greece → 130
🇮🇳 India → 120
🇮🇩 Indonesia → 100
🇮🇸 Iceland → 90
🇯🇵 Japan → 120
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan → 140
🇱🇹 Lithuania → 130
🇱🇺 Luxembourg → 130
🇲🇴 Macau → 80
🇲🇾 Malaysia → 110
🇲🇽 Mexico → 110
🇳🇱 Netherlands → 130
🇳🇬 Nigeria → 100
🇵🇰 Pakistan → 120
🇵🇭 Philippines → 100
🇵🇱 Poland → 140
🇷🇴 Romania → 130
🇷🇺 Russia → 130
🇷🇸 Serbia → 130
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia → 140
🇸🇬 Singapore → 90
🇿🇦 South Africa → 120
🇰🇷 South Korea → 120
🇪🇸 Spain → 120
🇹🇿 Tanzania → 80
🇹🇭 Thailand → 120
🇹🇷 Turkey → 140
🇬🇧 UK → 112
🇦🇪 UAE → 160
🇺🇸 US → 137
🇻🇳 Vietnam → 120

The English word “set” has 430 different meanings listed in the Oxford English Dictionary, giving it the longest dictionary entry at around 60,000 words.

Longest Serving World Leaders 🏛

1. 🇮🇷 Ali Khamenei - 43 years
2. 🇨🇬 Denis Sassou Nguesso - 39 years
3. 🇺🇬 Yoweri Museveni - 39 years
4. 🇹🇯 Emomali Rahmon - 32 years
5. 🇪🇷 Isaias Afwerki - 32 years
6. 🇧🇾 Alexander Lukashenko - 31 years
7. 🇳🇮 Daniel Ortega - 27 years
8. 🇩🇯 Ismail Omar Guelleh - 26 years
9. 🇷🇼 Paul Kagame - 25 years
10. 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin - 25 years


Note: As of 2025, Selected leaders only.

Source: Statista

Countries with the Highest YouTube Users

The longest prison sentence ever served was 71 years (for murdering an elderly man and stealing his boots).

Most Loved Countries in the World ❤️

1. 🇨🇦 Canada
2. 🇳🇴 Norway
3. 🇸🇪 Sweden
4. 🇨🇭 Switzerland
5. 🇦🇺 Australia
6. 🇫🇮 Finland
7. 🇳🇿 New Zealand
8. 🇩🇰 Denmark
9. 🇳🇱 Netherlands
10. 🇧🇪 Belgium
11. 🇮🇪 Ireland
12. 🇦🇹 Austria
13. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
14. 🇮🇹 Italy
15. 🇩🇪 Germany
16. 🇯🇵 Japan
17. 🇪🇸 Spain
18. 🇵🇹 Portugal
19. 🇫🇷 France
20. 🇸🇬 Singapore

Source: WorldAtlas

💵 If you had 1 dollar, and you doubled it every day, on the 50th day you would have 562 trillion dollars.

World's Busiest Airports by International Passenger Traffic (2022)

A foggy day in Dubai

Europe’s Most Dangerous Cities, according to citizens (crime index):

1. 🇬🇧 Bradford: 67.1
2. 🇫🇷 Marseille: 65.3
3. 🇬🇧 Coventry: 65
4. 🇬🇧 Birmingham: 64.4
5. 🇮🇹 Naples: 62.8
6. 🇫🇷 Grenoble: 61.2
7. 🇫🇷 Montpellier: 61.1
8. 🇧🇪 Liège: 60.7
9. 🇫🇷 Nantes: 58.5
10. 🇫🇷 Paris: 58.1
11. 🇫🇷 Lyon: 57.5
12. 🇬🇧 Manchester: 56.2
13. 🇫🇷 Nice: 55.8
14. 🇸🇪 Malmö: 55.5
15. 🇬🇧 London: 55.3
16. 🇬🇷 Athens: 55.3
17. 🇵🇹 Amadora: 55.2
18. 🇺🇦 Odessa (Odesa): 55.2
19. 🇧🇪 Brussels: 54.9
20. 🇮🇪 Dublin: 54
21. 🇺🇦 Dnipro: 53.9
22. 🇮🇹 Milan: 53
23. 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki: 52.5
24. 🇮🇹 Turin: 52
25. 🇪🇸 Barcelona: 51.7
26. 🇬🇧 Nottingham: 51.2
27. 🇪🇸 Bilbao: 50.6
28. 🇧🇾 Minsk: 50.5
29. 🇮🇪 Drogheda: 50.5
30. 🇮🇹 Bari: 50.2

Source: Numbeo, as of August 2025

Manaus, Brazil 🇧🇷

A city in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.

🇦🇷 In 2001, Argentina had five presidents in ten days.

The World’s Top 20 Richest Women 🤑

Source: Forbes via Boardroom

🩺 Humans don't age gradually according to a Stanford Medicine study, we age in two dramatic "bursts" around ages 44 and 60, where over 81% of our molecules and microbes suddenly shift in ways that affect heart health, immune function, metabolism, and even how we process alcohol and caffeine.