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.

% of married adults who have admitted having an affair:

🇹🇭 Thailand: 51%
🇩🇰 Denmark: 46%
🇮🇹 Italy: 45%
🇩🇪 Germany: 45%
🇫🇷 France: 43%
🇳🇴 Norway: 41%
🇧🇪 Belgium: 40%
🇪🇸 Spain: 39%
🇬🇧 UK: 36%
🇫🇮 Finland: 36%

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Tourism dependence in the Gulf is not what most people think.

Here’s how much tourism contributes to GDP in GCC countries:

1．🇧🇭 Bahrain - 10.6%
2．🇦🇪 UAE - 10.3%
3．🇶🇦 Qatar - 3.8%
4．🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 3.3%
5．🇴🇲 Oman - 2.4%
6．🇰🇼 Kuwait - 1.4%

Surprised?

For context, here’s how major global tourism economies compare:👇

🇬🇷 Greece - 9.1%
🇹🇭 Thailand - 8.1%
🇪🇸 Spain - 6.2%
🇯🇵 Japan - 1.4%
🇺🇸 USA - 0.8%
🇨🇳 China - 0.2%

Source: UN Tourism, World Bank

Countries that are entirely inside another country:

1．Lesotho 🇱🇸
2．San Marino 🇸🇲
3．Vatican City 🇻🇦

UNUSUAL: 🇮🇹 Milan and 🇫🇮 Helsinki are among most polluted cities in the world today.

Source: iQAir

More than 770 million adults and 126 million young people in the world (~10%) cannot read or write simple phrases.

EU youth unemployment (January 2026)

1．🇷🇴 Romania - 28.2%
2．🇸🇪 Sweden - 23.9%
3．🇪🇸 Spain - 23.5%
4．🇫🇮 Finland - 22.7%
5．🇫🇷 France - 20.9%
6．🇱🇺 Luxembourg - 19.7%
7．🇮🇹 Italy - 18.9%
8．🇧🇪 Belgium - 18.5%
9．🇵🇹 Portugal - 18.2%
10．🇭🇷 Croatia - 17.6%
11．🇬🇷 Greece - 16.0%
12．🇪🇪 Estonia - 15.9%
13．🇩🇰 Denmark - 15.3%
14．🇱🇻 Latvia - 15.3%
15．🇱🇹 Lithuania - 15.2%

16．🇪🇺 European Union - 15.1%

17．🇨🇾 Cyprus - 15.0%
18．🇸🇰 Slovakia - 14.7%
19．🇭🇺 Hungary - 14.0%
20．🇲🇹 Malta - 12.8%
21．🇧🇬 Bulgaria - 12.4%
22．🇮🇪 Ireland - 11.8%
23．🇸🇮 Slovenia - 11.6%
24．🇵🇱 Poland - 11.0%
25．🇦🇹 Austria - 10.2%
26．🇨🇿 Czechia - 10.0%
27．🇳🇱 Netherlands - 9.3%
28．🇩🇪 Germany - 7.1%

Source: Eurostat

Countries that are double landlocked (surrounded only by landlocked countries):

1．Liechtenstein 🇱🇮
2．Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

Einstein refused to wear socks because his big toe always created a hole in them.

🛩 Countries with the most Military Aircraft Fleet:

1. 🇺🇸 United States - 13,032
2. 🇷🇺 Russia - 4,237
3. 🇨🇳 China - 3,529
4. 🇮🇳 India - 2,183
5. 🇰🇷 South Korea - 1,540
6. 🇯🇵 Japan - 1,429
7. 🇵🇰 Pakistan - 1,397
8. 🇹🇷 Turkey - 1,101
9. 🇪🇬 Egypt - 1,088
10. 🇫🇷 France - 974
11. 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia - 917
12. 🇰🇵 North Korea - 837
13. 🇹🇼 Taiwan - 720
14. 🇮🇹 Italy - 714
15. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom - 625
16. 🇩🇿 Algeria - 620
17. 🇮🇱 Israel - 597
18. 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates - 581
19. 🇩🇪 Germany - 569
20. 🇬🇷 Greece - 560
21. 🇮🇷 Iran - 551

Source: Global Firepower 2026

🇮🇳 More than 3 million Indian officials are starting the world’s largest census to count 1.4 billion people.

More than 3 million Indian officials are to spend a year counting every single ‌person in the world's most populous nation.

The once-in-a-decade population survey, originally due in 2021, will start on April 1.

🚶 The world's longest continuous walk.

Cape Town, South Africa 🇿🇦 ➡️ Magadan, Russia 🇷🇺

Oxford University existed before the Aztec Empire was founded

🗣️ How People React When You Try to Speak Their Language in Europe