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13/06/2022

More than one million men and women have served on UN peacekeeping missions since 1948.

Bangladesh was the top contributing country as of February 2022 with 6,398 peacekeepers deployed while Nepal provided the second largest contribtion with 5,669.

India rounds off the top three with 5,591.

11/06/2022

In Europe, Cycling is common across all demographics, men and women, old and young, who commute regularly by bike all-year round.

Cycling is more pervasive, and sometimes even indistinguishable, from the norm.

EU imported nearly 5 million bikes with a total value of €930 million.

09/06/2022

Saudi Aramco is once again the world's most profitable company as oil prices recovered in the second year of the coronavirus pandemic.

Apple, ahead of Microsoft, led the ranking again in 2020, as the company benefited majorly from people working and socializing online during the early stages of the pandemic.

For the current 2021 ranking, Apple and Microsoft were relegated back to the top 2 and 5 spots.

08/06/2022

The nationality of the world's highest-earning athletes in in 2021/2022.

Despite the immense popularity of European Football domestically and around the world, nowhere comes even close to the overall earning power of elite U.S. athletes.

Although overall, PSG player Leonel Messi is the richest athlete this year.

27/05/2022

Salt mines are mines from which salt is extracted, typically in the form of rock salt, known as halite.

Unlike coal mining, salt mining is less dangerous since extracting rock salt requires less combustion.

The Sifto Salt Mine in Goderich, Canada is the world's largest underground salt mine.

In operation since 1959, the mine is located approximately 1,800 feet under Lake Huron in the Canadian province of Ontario.

24/05/2022

Countries with the most number of airports in the world.

There were over 20,300 airports in the United States as of October 2019.

Brazil took the second spot, with just under 3,900 airports.

Mexico is on third spot with 1,714 airports.

07/05/2022

03/05/2022

Cats are the most popular pet in the world according to Scientific American.

They live almost everywhere that people do, though of course more of them live in some places than others.

Cats are one of the most favored pets of the USA's citizens.

In the United States, one in three households own a pet cat, with an average of 2.2 cats per cat-owning household.

30/04/2022

Highest Expenditure on Education in percentage (%) of GDP.

In some countries, education funding is centralised, while in others it is decentralised with funds transferred
between levels of government.

Complete centralisation can cause delays in decision-making.

Decisions that are far removed from those affected also can fail to address changes in local needs and desired practices.

29/04/2022

Oldest Men in the World as of March 2022 (only verified list).

The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of Japan, who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.

26/04/2022

The largest volcanic erruption in history occurred on April 10–11, 1815, at Mount Tambora on Sumbawa Island, now a part of Indonesia.

Fifty cubic km (12 cubic miles) of magma were expelled in Plinian ash clouds and pyroclastic flows.

The second largest eruption of the 19th century also occurred in Indonesia. Krakatua (Krakatau), a composite volcano on a small uninhabited island between Sumatra and Java, erupted explosively on August 26–27, 1883.

20/04/2022

There are many different types of natural disasters that occur worldwide.

The most common ones are earthquakes, droughts, storms, floods, volcanic activity, extreme temperatures, landslides, and wild fires.

Overall, there were 416 natural disasters registered all over the world in 2020, and 201 of them were floods.

Due to their destructive nature, natural disasters take a severe toll on populations and countries.

Storms and floods, which tend to occur most regularly, have the biggest economic impact in the countries that they occur.