Daily Fun Facts

Minutes Of Minimum-Wage Work To Buy A Big Mac

To earn enough to buy a Big Mac, the average person in India has to work almost 6 hours.

There's US$75 trillion in the entire world. If this is distributed amongst all people on Earth, each person will have less than $11,000.

A honeybee's true surface area is the size of a piece of toast.

Zebras are actually black, with white stripes.

Apple is the largest information technology company by revenue (totaling $274.5 billion in 2020) .

India has the highest number of slaves in the world, with estimates ranging from 14 million to 18 million people.

One woman dies every hour in India because of dowry-related crimes.

Fruit flies use hairs on their head and thorax to catapult dust off of them at accelerations of up to 500 times Earth's gravity.

In West Bengal, India, cows must have a Photo ID Card.

A huge 61 per cent of school children have killer germs on their hands, study finds.

Giant anteaters do not have teeth; instead, they have tongues reaching as much as 610 mm (2 ft.) in length.

Llamas usually spit to settle an argument over food or to decide which is the dominant llama.

Hippophagy is the practice of eating horsemeat.

Some baby turtles talk to each other while they are still in their eggs so that they all hatch together.

Breathing the air in Mumbai, India, for just one day is equivalent to smoking 113 cigarettes.

Some insects can see ultraviolet light.