- When 174 world leaders signed the Paris Agreement on Earth Day in 2016 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, it was the largest number of countries ever to come together to sign anything on a single day.
- According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization, more people want to visit France than any other country in the world.
- According to data compiled from various global sources by the Telegraph in 2017, Indonesia is home to some of the shortest people in the world.
- Four babies are born every second. That means there are around 131.4 million babies born on earth yearly.
- The chili was initially developed to be used in medical treatment as an anesthetic that can numb the skin.
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