20 Facts About The World That We Should All Learn || Interesting Elements About World

The world is a huge place filled with many things we cannot imagine. Just thinking about it can be overwhelming and makes you think, “20 facts? Are there really that many?”. In fact, it always seems like that. Huh! If you were wondering if the world is full of amazing facts, here are 20 facts that you might not have known about the world we live in; some of them will leave you amazed and others will prove that everything around us has a reason for being and a meaning to be found out.

 

There are many things we don't know about the world. Sometimes, it's worth showing those things that happened years ago to our ancestors and may not be able to be repeated now. These facts will surprise you and you'll be amazed by their truth, as some facts might compel you to think whether they are real or fake.

 

The world is filled with millions of facts and facts, but we choose to ignore some of them. It’s a shame its size is unknown, the fact that people are not allowed to marry in some countries, and many other facts are almost unknown. We have made a list of things that should be saved in our memory. Feel free to share this post.

 

The world we live in is full of mysteries, surprises, and facts that might be hidden from us. It has never been easy to discover the best facts about everything around us. We don’t realize that there are so many things hidden right in front of us.

 

In this day and age, at the beginning of a new century, amid all the virtual magnificence and convenience of technology, it’s hard to imagine there are things in the world that still exist that we haven’t even thought about. Some of these facts are shocking. Not only do they show how much we don’t know about our planet, but also how much we underestimate ourselves.

The world is full of mysteries. From unsolved crimes to missing people, there are plenty of things that have happened in the world that have left even the most clever of detectives and investigators stumped. Here are 20 facts about the world that we should all learn.

• ·      The World’s Population Is Getting Older
• ·      There Are More Than 10,000 Oceanic Islands In The World
• ·      Roughly One-Fourth Of The World’s Population Lives In China Or India
• ·      Only 5 Percent Of The World’s Population Lives In The Americas (North & South)
• ·      The Median Age Around The World Is 28
• ·      There Are More Than 6,900 Languages Spoken Around The World
• ·      As Of 2016, There Were An Estimated 1.6 Billion Muslims In The World
• ·      A Man Named William Buckland Ate His Way Through All Known Animal Species By The Time He Died — Including His Wife’s Pet Canary And Bezoar Stones (Stones That Can Be Found In Animals’ Stomachs)
• ·      The Ural Mountains Are Considered To Be The Natural Boundary Between Europe And Asia, Even Though They Aren’t Very High (They’re About Half As High As The Alps).
• ·      The Average Person Will Walk Nearly 100,000.

 

From the fact that the more people speak a language, the shorter its words tend to be, to the fact that lions don't actually roar in real life, 20 facts about the world that we should all know, but don't.

1. The world is a global village and there are many facts that we all should know.

2. There are over 6 billion people in the world, yet only 1% of the population has red hair.

3. An estimated 200 million girls alive today have undergone some form of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C).

4. By 2050, the world’s population is forecast to reach 9.5 billion, but nearly half of all pregnancies worldwide are not planned and more than one-third of these unintended pregnancies end in abortion.

5. The earth is approximately 4.55 billion years old, give or take 50 million years, according to scientists at NASA.

 

1. The world population of chickens is about equal to the number of people.

Chickens outnumber humans nearly two to one. There are more than 19 billion chickens on the planet, and that number is rising every year.

2. Every beach in the world has more stars in the universe than grains of sand.

The Sun is just one of the billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy alone. And there are almost 100B galaxies in this universe.

3. The weight of one cloud can exceed 1 million pounds

The average cumulus cloud weighs 1.1 million pounds according to a National Geographic article from 2011. That weight is spread out over a fairly large section of sky, so no need to worry about it falling down and crushing you anytime soon.

In 2005, an article published by Princeton University stated that the ocean contains approximately 320 million cubic miles of saltwater, which works out to around 5 quadrillion tons (or five million billion tons). Even if you could use that much salt to make a 500-foot thick layer covering every continent, there would still be plenty leftover for seasoning your food.

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1. A person can live for about a month without food, but only for about a week without water.

2. The two-foot-long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!

3. A skunk’s smell can be detected by a human a mile away!

4. If you can't find food, some worms will eat it yourself.

5. According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it is possible to go slower than light but not faster than light!?

6. The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side.

 

A world without bees will be very dark. Bees pollinate the majority of our food and if they were to die out, so would we.

 

Around the world, billions of trees are chopped down every single year. In fact, it's estimated that around 15 billion trees are cut down every single year.

 

The Nile River is the longest river in the world. It runs through 11 countries and is 4,132 miles long.

 

In 2011, a woman in California named Anita Flores was diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live. She decided to spend her time doing what she loved most — reading books. She read over 2,000 books before she died four years later.

 

Almost 100M sharks Fish are killed each year by poor and rich humans. The annual rate at which sharks are being killed is approximately 11,417 per hour or 190 per minute or three per second.

 

There's a colony of penguins on an island in South Africa where the average temperature is 63 degrees Fahrenheit. These penguins are known for their tuxedos and are known as Jackass Penguins because of their donkey-like bray.

 

The largest flower in the world is called Rafflesia Arnoldi and can grow up to three feet in diameter and weigh up to 15.

 

1. Antarctica is the only continent where no snakes or reptiles exist

2. Brazil consumes more pizza than any other country in the world

3. The population of Mexico City grows by 29 people every hour

4. The Bank of England destroys around 25 tons of shredded banknotes each year to cover up the identities of its users

5. If you drive from Los Angeles to New York, you’ll pass through three time zones, two countries, and eight states

6. The planet Jupiter is so large that all the other planets in our solar system could fit inside it.

7. Most pencils sold within the USA are manufactured in China

8. The Eiffel tower can be 15cm taller during summer due to the metal expanding in hot temperatures. It is painted every seven years using 60 tonnes of paint, equivalent to 30,000 liters of paint.

9. In 1903 Orville Wright flew 120 feet in 12 seconds while his brother Wilbur watched and took photographs: it was the first airplane flight ever recorded on camera and lasted only 12 seconds!

10. At least 40% of Americans suffer from sleep deprivation and don’t get enough sleep at night – this causes problems.

 

Global warming is real/authentic and it's happening fast. The rate of global warming is increasing by 0.2°C per decade, according to the World Wildlife Federation.

 

The number of children dying before their fifth birthday has decreased by half since 1990, a sure sign of progress for humanity.

 

Despite being home to some of the richest people in the world, New York City's income inequality is greater than Rwanda's, according to the Brookings Institute.

 

There are more mobile phones than toilets in use today, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

 

There are only three countries in the world that don't use the metric system: the US, Liberia, and Myanmar (also known as Burma), according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

 

Iceland has no national armed forces or standing army, but rather "an unarmed society" that relies on nonviolent means for defense, according to Global Security. org.

 

The Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, with life on it appearing about 3.5 billion years ago, according to NASA.

 

The majority of native species on Easter Island became extinct after humans settled there around 700 CE due to deforestation and overhunting, which wiped out bird populations that had previously fertilized.

 

1. In the time it takes you to read this sentence, at least one person in the world has died from suicide.

 2. Half of all deaths in the world are caused by just four things: heart disease, stroke, respiratory infection, and diarrhea

 3. If you could drive to the moon at 60 mph, it would take more than 2 years to get there

 4. The Sun has burned for 4+ billion years and has about 6 billion more before it dies

 5. The Earth is 93 million miles from the Sun

 6. 80% of the Earth's surface is covered by water

 7. 1/3 of all freshwater lies beneath Antarctic ice sheets

 8. The human brain contains 86 billion neurons (nerve cells) - more than all of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy!

 9. It is estimated that each year, 25-50% of all food produced worldwide never gets eaten

 10. Between 40-50 million people were killed during World War II - over 3% of the population at that time!

 11. More people die from suicide than murder and war combined each year worldwide

 12. There are approximately 2 million living species on Earth - but we have only discovered around 1 million of them!

 

You will enjoy reading all the facts presented here. When you are done, you will have read through many interesting facts. You may think that at least some of them do not sound right at all because they sound just too weird. However, these are just some interesting facts that we think you should know about our world and enjoy learning.