The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
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Americans are responsible for generating roughly 20% percent of the garbage in the world.
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It's impossible to kill yourself by holding your breath.
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There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.
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