🇮🇳 India GDP 2000: $468 billion
🇮🇳 India GDP 2010: $1.68 trillion
🇮🇳 India GDP 2020: $2.61 trillion
🇮🇳 India GDP 2026: $4.15 trillion
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The most complex character in any known language is 𰻞, pronounced biang.
It forms part of the Chinese name for a noodle dish and is made with 42 to 70 strokes, most commonly 58.
🤫 97% of people are currently keeping at least one secret at any given time.
Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.
The average public swimming pool contains 75 litres of urine.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
3% of bird species have penises. Those that do include ducks, geese, swans, ostriches and emus.
🇪🇸 Births per woman in Spain.
1960: 2.86
1980: 2.22
2000: 1.22
2020: 1.19
2025: ~1.10
Men who earn less than their wives are more likely to experience stress and relationship conflict.
Fidel Castro used to wear two Rolexes on the same wrist
People with higher IQs are more prone to anxiety and overthinking, according to multiple psychological studies.
You’re roughly half human.
Your body is more bacteria than human 🦠
You carry ~38 trillion bacterial cells
vs ~30 trillion human cells
That means you are only ~43% human by cell count.
You’re not just one organism.
You’re an ecosystem.
A new baby usually deprives each of it’s parents around 350-400 hours of sleep in the first year.
A manned mission to the moon was so unpopular when first conceived by John F. Kennedy that a May 1961 Gallup Poll indicated that 58 percent of Americans were opposed to it.
A new study published in the Public Library of Science ONE highlights that the habit of toilet scrolling could be increasing your chances of haemorrhoids by 46%.
The study found that around 37% of smartphone users spend more than five minutes during a single visit to the toilet.
Bangladesh vs Russia
Area
🇧🇩 Bangladesh — 57,321 mi²
🇷🇺 Russia — 6,612,000 mi²
Population
🇧🇩 Bangladesh — 176.8 million
🇷🇺 Russia — 144.1 million
Russia is ~115× larger in land area.
Yet Bangladesh has ~30 million more people.
One of the most extreme population density contrasts on Earth.
Bitcoin vs Gold — YTD performance 📊
₿ Bitcoin
💵 ~$69,400
📉 −20.65% YTD
🥇 Gold
💵 ~$5,033 / oz
📈 +16.56% YTD
Day of the year: 31
COUNTRIES THAT LOST A WAR TO BIRDS:
1. Australia 🇦🇺
👁️ The retina in the eye is actually a part of the brain
Countries That Have Eaten Their Prime Minister:
1. Netherlands 🇳🇱
🇱🇹 Lithuania population
1963: 2.9 million
2025: 2.9 million
🇬🇷 Greece population
1993: 10.4 million
2025: 10.4 million
🇲🇩 Moldova population
1951: 2.38 million
2025: 2.38 million
2026 is 2% complete 🙄
Presidents / Heads of State Captured by the United States
2026: Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela 🇻🇪
2004: Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti 🇭🇹
2003: Saddam Hussein, Iraq 🇮🇶
1990: Manuel Noriega, Panama 🇵🇦
1901: Emilio Aguinaldo, Philippines 🇵🇭
🤕 Lucky people: an estimated 5 to 10 percent of people have never had a headache according to Norman Harden, a headache expert at Northwestern University
🇮🇳 Now every sixth child is born in India.
Percentage of electric cars in the US:
1900: 33%
2011: 0.14%
2015: 0.66%
2017: 1.13%
2018: 2.1%
2019: 1.9%
2022: 4.6%
2025: 10.5%
Your chances of being born on each continent:
Asia: 49.69%
Africa: 34.87%
South America: 7.08%
Europe: 4.80%
North America: 3.04%
Australia/ Oceania: 0.52%
Antarctica: ~0%