The six official languages of the United Nations are: English, French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Spanish.
The number of possible ways of playing the first four moves per side in a game of chess is 318,979,564,000.
The Olympic flag's colors are always red, black, blue, green and yellow rings on a field of white. This is because at least one of those colors appears on the flag of every nation on the planet.
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Astronauts are not allowed to eat beans before they go into space because passing wind in a space suit damages them.
Guinness Book of Records holds the record for being the book most often stolen from Public Libraries.
A tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion will make it instantly go mad and sting itself to death.
Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks - otherwise it will digest itself.
A person can live without food for about a month, but only about a week without water.
If the amount of water in your body is reduced by just 1%, you'll feel thirsty.
If it's reduced by 10%, you'll die.
For those who have trouble sleeping researchers say that 1 week of camping, without electronics, resets our biological body clock and synchronizes our melatonin hormones with sunrise and sunset.
The german Parliament building has a glass dome above it that people can walk over. This is to remain the politicians that government should be transparent, and the people are always above them.