Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
79
Stilts were invented by French shepherds who needed a way to get around in wet marshes.
45
About two hundred babies are born worldwide every minute.
237
There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
121
The yin-yang pattern's earliest use is in Rome - not China!
125
A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
15
You can tape a small mirror onto a cone speaker, play music and shine a laser on to the mirror and the reflection will look like a laser light show on your wall.
102
160 cars can drive side by side on the Monumental Axis in Brazil, the world's widest road.
39