World’s Oldest Inhabited Cities

1) Jericho 🇵🇸 ~ 11,000 years
2) Byblos 🇱🇧 ~ 7,000 years
3) Argos 🇬🇷 ~ 7,000 years
4) Damascus 🇸🇾 ~ 6,300 years
5) Aleppo 🇸🇾 ~ 6,300 years
6) Susa 🇮🇷 ~ 6,200 years
7) Plovdiv 🇧🇬 ~ 6,000 years
8) Sidon 🇱🇧 ~ 6,000 years
9) Faiyum 🇪🇬 ~ 6,000 years
10) Gaziantep 🇹🇷 ~ 5,650 years
11) Beirut 🇱🇧 ~ 5,000 years
12) Jerusalem 🇮🇱🇵🇸 ~ 4,800 years
13) Tyre 🇱🇧 ~ 4,750 years
14) Erbil 🇮🇶 ~ 4,300 years
15) Kirkuk 🇮🇶 - 4,200 years

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🚶 Walking vs running energy comparison:

🚶 Walking 1 km: ~50 kcal
🏃 Running 1 km: ~100 -120 kcal
🚶 10,000 steps: ~300 - 500 kcal
🏃 30 min run: ~300 - 500 kcal
🧍 Standing still 1 hour: ~80 kcal
🪑 Sitting 1 hour: ~60 kcal
😴 Sleeping 1 hour: ~50 kcal
🧠 Mental stress increases heart rate ~10 - 20%
💦 Sweat loss varies: 0.5 - 2 liters/hour running
❤️ Heart rate increase: walking ~20%, running ~70%

Source: Harvard Health

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🎮 Best-selling video games ever:

1️⃣ 🟩 Minecraft: 300M+ copies
2️⃣ 🚗 GTA V: 200M+
3️⃣ 🧱 Tetris: 100M+
4️⃣ 🎮 Wii Sports: 82.9M
5️⃣ 🕹 PUBG: 75M
6️⃣ 🔴 Mario Kart 8: 70M+
7️⃣ ⚔️ Red Dead Redemption 2: 64M+
8️⃣ 🧟 Terraria: 58M+
9️⃣ ⚽️ Pokémon Red/Blue: 58M+
🔟 🏝 Animal Crossing: 45M+

🌍 Minecraft sold enough copies for 1 out of every 25 people on Earth to own it.

Source: Game Publisher Reports

Windows drops under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share

Windows has dropped from 70.14% in June 2025 to 56.55% in June 2026.

macOS has increased to 11.91% in June 2026, and Linux has increased to 4.36%

🌍 Countries where people work the MOST hours yearly:

1️⃣ 🇲🇽 Mexico: 2,226 hours/year
2️⃣ 🇨🇷 Costa Rica: 2,149
3️⃣ 🇨🇱 Chile: 1,953
4️⃣ 🇬🇷 Greece: 1,897
5️⃣ 🇵🇱 Poland: 1,803
6️⃣ 🇺🇸 USA: 1,799
7️⃣ 🇯🇵 Japan: 1,607
8️⃣ 🇩🇪 Germany: 1,343
9️⃣ 🇩🇰 Denmark: 1,372
🔟 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 1,427

🗓 The average Mexican worker puts in nearly 900 more hours yearly than Germans. That’s over 37 extra full days of work.

Source: OECD

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🇺🇸The First Five Countries That Recognized The United States

🇲🇦 Morocco - 1777
🇫🇷 France - 1778
🇳🇱 Netherlands - 1782
🇪🇸 Spain - 1783
🇸🇪 Sweden - 1783

⚽️ Cumulative Goals by Age Among Prolific Goal Scorers in Football

💸 Where the average person’s money goes yearly:

1. 🏠 Housing: ~25–35% of income
2. 🍔 Food: ~10–15%
3. 🚗 Transport: ~10–15%
4. 📱 Communication (phone/internet): ~3–5%
5. 🏥 Healthcare: ~5–10%
6. 🎬 Entertainment: ~5%
7. 🛒 Impulse purchases: ~8–12%
8. 💳 Debt payments: ~10–20% (in many countries)
9. 🎓 Education/skills: ~1–5%
10. 💰 Savings: often <10% globally

Source: OECD Household Spending Data

💸 What $100 could buy in 1970 vs today in the US:

🍔 McDonald’s hamburgers
1970: 500 burgers
Today: ~40 burgers

⛽️ Gasoline
1970: ~1,700 liters
Today: ~25 liters

🎬 Movie tickets
1970: 67 tickets
Today: 6-7 tickets

🏠 Average house payment
1970: Covered a huge chunk
Today: Barely covers a utility bill


Source: US Inflation Calculator, BLS

More Than Half the World Lives in Just 7 Countries! 🌏

~52.6% of the population lives in India 🇮🇳, China 🇨🇳, United States 🇺🇸, Indonesia 🇮🇩, Pakistan 🇵🇰, Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Brazil 🇧🇷. Meanwhile ~47.4% lives in the rest of the world.

🏙 Cities with the worst traffic congestion:

1️⃣ 🇬🇧 London
2️⃣ 🇮🇳 Bengaluru
3️⃣ 🇮🇪 Dublin
4️⃣ 🇯🇵 Sapporo
5️⃣ 🇮🇹 Milan
6️⃣ 🇵🇪 Lima
7️⃣ 🇵🇭 Manila
8️⃣ 🇳🇿 Auckland
9️⃣ 🇨🇴 Bogotá
🔟 🇷🇴 Bucharest

🚗 Drivers in London lose over 150 hours yearly just sitting in traffic.

Source: INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard