There are far fewer stars than trees. According to statistics, there are more trees on Earth than there are stars in the Milky Way. There are around 3 trillion trees and 400 billion stars.

Located at Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, the lab room measures a background noise of -20.35 dBA, which is 20 decibels below the threshold of human hearing and breaks

With 221,800 islands, Sweden is thought to have more islands than any other country in the world. Only about 1,000 of them are inhabited.

California alone uses more gasoline than any country in the world (except the US as a whole, of course). California's 20 billion-plus gallon gasoline and diesel consumption is greater than that of entire India.

The Northern Hemisphere is home to approximately 6.57 billion people which is around 90% of the earth's total human population of 7.3 billion people.

The Lonar lake near Aurangabad, Maharashtra, was created by a falling meteor, some 52,000 years ago.

People believe that the US private sector invented the Internet, but that is not true. The US government did. The Pentagon financed the development of the computer in the early days and the Internet came out of a Pentagon research project.

Chess is said to have been invented in India. It was called Chaturanga, around 600CE. IT then spread to Persia and then on to Europe.

The crossword puzzle was born in December 1913. Arthur Wynne, an editor at the New York World, needed a new game for that paper's ‘fun’ section and that is how the crossword puzzle was born.

According to the UN, the Maldives has the highest divorce rate in the world, with 10.97 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants per year. This is followed by Belarus with 4.63 and the US with 4.34.