Stars on Brazil flag are arranged as they were on November, 15th. 1889 at 8:30 AM, proclamation of the Republic of Brazil.

Kinder Surprises are banned in the USA.

In Singapore, the import and the sale of chewing gum are prohibited.

The country with which France shares the longest border is… Brazil!

In 1950 India wanted to attend the soccer world cup… barefoot !

In Centralia, Pennsylvania, a fire has been burning since 1962.

There is a sea which has no coasts and no shores!

The full name of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, is : Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit.

There are only twelve letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

The highest point of Maldives is lower than a basket on a basketball court.

France has been using the German time zone since the German occupation during WWII.

It's usually said that the Great Wall of China is “the only human building that can be seen from space”...actually it's false.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi is the only man who survived both atomic bombs (at least the only that was officially recognised)...

80 billion human beings have been born on the planet since the first humans, and half of them in the last two millennia !

The motto of the former British Empire (England / United Kingdom) is in French, not in English!

The full name of the city of Los Angeles is “El pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles del Rio de Porciuncula”.

Iran comes second in number of gender reassignment surgery (first is Thailand).

The longest swimming pool in the world is located in Algarrobo, Chile, and is 1,013 meters long.

Apricots originally came from the northeast of China.

HARIBO comes from “HAns RIegel, BOnn”, creator of the company, followed by the name of the city where he created it.