Discover Some Surprising Facts About the World With Us
Written on : 02 September 2020 By : Léa Frémiot
Check out our daily selection of fascinating facts about the world! You can never know enough about what's going on around you, after reading our article you can boast about knowing the name of the world's largest flower, the highest recorded temperature in the world or even what the Gates of Hell are! We won't keep you waiting any longer... Enjoy reading!
The largest flower in the world is in Indonesia and is called Rafflesia Arnoldii. It is up to 1 meter in diameter and weighs up to 10kg. It is nicknamed the corpse flower because of its bad smell that attracts flies.
400 million years ago, mushrooms over 8 metres high existed on earth.
Benin is the country with the most twins in the world (27.2 per 1000 people) and twins are seen as a gift from God.
Nepal is the only country that worships a young girl as a living goddess.
A year in Bali lasts only 210 days
On average, an American spends 90% of his time indoors.
The highest temperature in the world was recorded in 1922 in Libya and amounted to 57.8°C.
A pilot and co-pilot are never served the same meal before a flight in case one of them is affected by food poisoning.
Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt
The oldest customer complaint dates back to 4000 years ago when it was written on a clay plate in Mesopotamia.
Italy is the country with the most UNESCO World Heritage monuments
The Louvre Museum is the largest museum in the world.
Papua New Guinea is the country with the most languages in the world: 855 languages are spoken there.
It is in Turkmenistan that we find the Gate of Hell. It is an enormous crater in the middle of the desert which has been burning since 1971 because of the presence of natural gas in it.
Luggage on wheels was only invented in 1970 while the first man to walk on the moon was sent in 1969.
