More than half the world’s population is under 25 and more than half of it is bilingual.

More people in the world recognise the McDonald’s symbol than the Christian cross.

Skateboards were banned in Norway between 1978 and 1989.

In 2005, the 54 billionaires in Britain paid only £14.7 million in income tax between them. Of this, £9 million came from James Dyson.

The Antarctic is a continent entirely surrounded by oceans; the Arctic is an ocean almost entirely surrounded by continents.

A language dies every 14 days.

Only three members of the United Nations have failed to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: South Sudan, Somalia and the USA.

Oxford University was over 300 years old when the Aztec Empire was founded.

The ancient Greeks had no word for religion.

Chemotherapy is a by-product of the mustard gas used in the First World War.

Bacteria are about as different from viruses as metronomes are from giraffes.

‘Gangnam Style’ has been watched for four times more hours than it took to build the Great Pyramid.

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