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Nigeria

Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of oil
The amount of gas burned off by the oil companies just to overcome “over pressure” during oil production in Nigeria is more than enough to power the whole continent of Africa (but it is cheaper to burn it than to produce energy from it, and they make so much money from oil that they do not care about the gas produced)

The world’s 7 billionth person is a girl. Symbolically, she is either the tiny little girl named Danica May Camacho from Manila, Philipines (CBS news) or another little girl named Nargis from Uttar Pradesh in India (NGO Plan International)
Our population grew by another 95 people since you started reading this.

Smurfs are Belgian
The smurf comics were created after a misunderstanding over salt
Smurfs are said to be “three apples tall”
The smurf franchise generates about $10 million in royalties annually and are worth about $4 billion
Smurfette was created by Gargamel and was originally a brunette
Smurfs were the first to introduce the zombie movie theme to the world in the episode “The purple smurfs”. This was 6 years before ‘The night of the living dead’
A petrol station in the US once had the slogan ‘service with a smurf’
Their creator Peyo, doesn’t like Smurfette
The book that Brainy smurf was always writing is called ‘Quotations by Brainy Smurf’
There are a total of 103 smurfs
Smurfs were once linked to Communism, Ku Klux Klan and even Neo Nazisim. All of which are untrue
Smurfs turn purple when they hold their breath
The world record for the most people dressed as smurfs happend in Swansea in 2009
A lot of smurfs from the comics never made it to the cartoon; Timid Smurf, Enamored Smurf, Finance Smurf

By 2010, electronically stored information was estimated at 1.2 billion terabytes (by IDC)
If these information were stored on CDs, the stack would reach the moon and back.
Our digital world grew by 2/3 in 2010 alone
An estimated 15 per cent of that information would be stored in an internet cloud system

If all the people in the world were a grain of sand, we could all fit into a can of tuna

0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe
Leonardo Da Vinci predicted the mass use of solar energy as long ago as 1447
Enough sunlight falls on the earth in an hour to power our entire population for one year
In 1990, a solar powered airplane flew over 4000km without fuel
Weather related damages in 1998 alone cost more than those between 1980 to 1990 ($82 billion dollars)
The United States of America accounts for 5% of the world’s population, but consume over 25% of its energy

If you shut down your computer for 60 seconds, this is what you will miss online:

India has the most English speakers in the world
It is a fact that there are 5 times more people learning English in China than there are people in England
Of the worlds 2700+ languages, English contains the most vocabulary
More than 75% of the world’s letters and cables are written in English
8 out of 10 of the world’s computers store data in English (not technically)
It is an amazing fact that English is the world’s most widespread language, spoken by over 1 billion people

Americans spend almost $1 billion on petrol every 24 hours
In Venezuela, fuel costs $0.02. Thats right, 2 cents
The highest fuel price is in the Netherlands. They have a 158% fuel tax making it $2.56 a litre
The highest fuel tax in the world is in the UK – a whooping 188%
In Iran, when fuel prices went up to 15 cents a litre, a lynch mob went across Tehran torching gas stations

Half of the world’s gold is produced in South Africa
South Africa boasts as many (6) Nobel prize winners as Mexico (3), China (1) and India (2) put together
In South Africa, @ is called “aapstert” wich means a “monkey’s tail”
A South African baboon called ‘Jacky’ was promoted to the rank of private during World War I
Afrikaans is the youngest official language in the world
South Africa has the 5th bluest sky in the world (Britain’s National Physical Laboratory)
Bear wrestling is illegal in South Africa
South Africa has two national anthems