On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
72
The full moon causes a tidal wave to roll up the Amazon river once in day and once in night for a period of only three weeks in a year. This results in continuous 4m high wave that can be surfed for up to 13km.
14
The most children born to one woman was 69, she was a peasant who lived a 40 year life, in which she had 16 twins, 7 triplets, and 4 quadruplets.
852
There are 2,500,000 rivets in the Eiffel Tower.
98
The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.
198
There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have an invisibility testing center.
18
The streets of Victor, Colorado, once a gold rush town, are paved with low-grade gold.
78
Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
58