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In fact, I can typically find a banana for less than a dollar in most places!

Even something like pineapples, a tropical fruit which can only be grown in certain climates, are still easy to find almost anywhere.

To put things into perspective, let's take a step back in time!

In the 1700's, pineapples used to be a status symbol of wealth.

This was because they weren't grown in Europe, so when world explorers brought back this rare and exotic new fruit, supply was low and demand was high.

In those days, one pineapple would cost today's equivalent to $8,000 dollars!

At the Lost Gardens of Heligan in the United Kingdom, you will find pineapples grown in mud structures heated with rotting manure.

The odd strategies used here are reflective of older techniques in order to grow this tropical fruit in a colder climate.

In fact, the structure these rare pineapples are grown in was unearthed in 1991 and renovated just two years later to a working state.

The successfully grown pineapples go right back to the staff who grew them as an appreciation for growing them in the first place.

The second pineapple ever grown in the Lost Gardens was gifted to Queen Elizabeth II in honor of her 50th wedding anniversary.

London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, and is the largest urban area in Greater London.

London is the biggest city in western Europe, and the world's largest financial centre.

Most people in London are British.

There are also many people from different countries who stay in London on business.

In the year AD 61, the city was attacked and destroyed.

After the decline of the Roman Empire, few people remained in London.

In the 9th century, more people started living in London again.

It became the largest city in England.

The old City of London is only a square mile in size but has its own Lord Mayor.

In Westminster is Westminster Abbey (a cathedral), The Palace of Westminster (the Houses of Parliament, with Big Ben), and 10 Downing Street (where the Prime Minister lives).

It is also the biggest city in Germany.

The city is in the eastern part of Germany.

There are a lot of technology companies in the city.

The King of Prussia and the Emperor of Germany lived in Berlin.

The government of Germany was in Berlin for many years.

Bombs destroyed many buildings in the city in World War Two.

After the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 very few people were allowed to cross from East Berlin into West Berlin.

Tornadoes are especially dangerous to people in cars or mobile homes and about 60 people are killed by tornadoes every year.

Nearly three quarters of the world's tornadoes happen in the United States.

They cause a lot of damage to anything in their path.

Tornadoes can happen in nearly any part of the world.

In the United States, a tornado has happened in all states.

Other tornado-like phenomena that exist in nature include the gustnado, dust devil, fire whirls, and steam devil;

The object of the game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return.

The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis.

During most of the 19th century, in fact, the term tennis referred to real tennis, not lawn tennis.

Two exceptions are that from 1908 to 1961 the server had to keep one foot on the ground at all times, and the adoption of the tiebreak in the 1970s.

Walmart is an American chain of retail department, and grocery stores, known for being the largest company in the world by revenue.

Walmart is a family-owned business that was founded in 1962 by Sam Walton in Rogers, Arkansas.

Penney who purchased a Ben Franklin Store in 1945 from the Butler Brothers.

He increased the sales by 45% in the first year by offering lower prices on products that he purchased from lower cost suppliers.

Within five years of the first Walmart opening in Arkansas it expanded to 24 stores in the state and sales reaches $12.6 million.

In 1969, Walmart was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 1970.

By 1987, Walmart's 25th anniversary, there were 1,198 stores and $15.9 billion in sales.

The first Walmart Supercenter opened in 1988 in Missouri.

Walmart's revenue in 2014 was $476 billion.

The net profit of Walmart in 2014 was $16 billion, which was equal to the gross revenue of the Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy around the world.

Of the 10 richest people in the United States, four of them are Waltons.

It is estimated that approximately 18% of the food stamps used in the United States are spent at Walmart.

Approximately 44% of the population in the United States shop at Walmart each year.

In the United States there are more than 4,230 stores and there are more than 6,100 stores located internationally.

In respect to charities and giving back, the Walton family is worth as much as Bill Gates and Warren Buffet combined.

It reads the list of instructions and runs (executes) each one in order.

The clock rate, or speed of a CPU's internal parts, is measured in hertz (Hz).

Most CPUs used in desktop (home) computers are microprocessors made by either Intel or Advanced Micro Devices (usually shortened to AMD).

Most of their CPUs are used in embedded systems for more specialized things, like in mobile phones, cars, game consoles, or in the military.

In the 20th century engineers invented many different computer architectures.

The instructions in a 32 bit CPU are good at handling data that is 32 bits in size (most instructions "think" in 32 bits in a 32 bit CPU).

Likewise, a 64 bit CPU is good at handling data that is 64 bits in size (and often good at handling 32 bit data too).

When CPUs were invented in the middle 20th century they had many different word sizes.

A little over ten years ago now, the Airbnb story began in San Francisco, 2008.

Three college students, down on their luck and in rent arrears, plotted, schemed, and grafted away night-after-night in an effort to avoid having their rental lease terminated and keep themselves off the streets.

This breakthrough in online lodging has become a massive success, bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars annually and operating in a staggering 192 countries worldwide.

In celebration of this momentous achievement and their more than ten years in business, here are 20 Fun Facts about Airbnb, that you probably didn't know.

With no immediate options available to them to cover their costs, the three of them got creative and decided to rent out an airbed in their apartment to budget-conscious tourists or those simply in need of a safe place to lay their heads.

This enterprise soon took off, and over time it evolved into the Airbnb we have today, with a little cheeky nod to its birth all those years ago, still in its name.

Airbnb was formed in San Francisco in 2008, and it's in that very city where Airbnb plays host to it's most loyal customers and fans, with the Sanfranciscan's on average spending five and half days in each property and splashing out a whopping $1,045 for their stay.

Breakfast was undoubtedly crucial in getting Airbnb off the ground;

In only eleven years, they have conquered the four corners of the globe, reaching a staggering 192 countries worldwide.

The only countries they are not available in are either war-torn or living under a military dictatorship, which is totally understandable.

Older folk are flocking to the online marketplace, in record numbers, opting for a home-away-from-home experience, instead of the one size fits all, assembly line hotels, which often feel impersonal and lacking in charm.

And if that sounds impressive, one of them managed to make fifteen and a half million in just twelve months.

In the eleven years that Airbnb has been trading, they have accepted more than five hundred million guests!

Two million guests stay with Airbnb each night alone, making Airbnb, by far the biggest and most lucrative online rental marketplace in the world today.

There are some fantastic unique places available to rent on Airbnb if you're in an adventurous kind of mood.

Starting up in their apartment in San Francisco in 2008, Airbnb had little use for an office, but as the company grew, this quickly became a necessity.

Now, in 2019, Airbnb has offices in thirty-four cities worldwide, giving them a global reach and customer service that spans every continent.

Airbnb has one of the strongest customer ratings in the industry, with more than 96% of guests being happy with the site, service, and their stay.

Our planetary system is located in an outer spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy.

We're in one of the galaxy's four spiral arms.

The planets of our solar system hold more than 150 moons in their orbits.

The Great Wall of China is one of the greatest sights in the world.

Its winding path over rugged country and steep mountains takes in some great scenery.

It was built in different areas by different dynasties to protect different territorial borders.

It helped fix the bricks in place and bound the bricks together so tightly that weeds cannot grow in many parts.

In the Han Dynasty, the emperors extended the Great Wall far into today's western China to protect Silk Road trade.

During the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), many Great Wall bricks were used in building homes, farms, or reservoirs.

In December 1987 the Great Wall was placed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO .

Perhaps the most powerful advertising words in history come from the poetic pen of Chairman Mao: "Until you reach the Great Wall, you're no hero.".

The Great Wall Marathon is held in October every year on Mutianyu Great Wall.

They may be designed to look like humans, in which case their behaviour may suggest intelligence or thought.

They can come in many forms.

In fiction, however, robots usually look like people, and seem to have a life of their own.

There are many books, movies, and video games with robots in them.

People have been interested in building machines to do work for us for a long time.

Leonardo da Vinci designed a man-shaped machine to look like a knight in 1464.

In 1920, Karel Čapek wrote a story about them, and he used a word from Czech that is connected with 'work': robot.

The most successful robot designs in the 20th century were not made to look like people.

George Devol made the first of these, the Unimate, in 1954, with one arm and one hand.

Thai street food is a market place in Thailand where vendors set up stalls to sell food and people buy to enjoy on the go or directly on nearby tables.

It's a noodle dish made from wide and thick rice noodles that is stir fried in dark soy sauce with either pork, chicken, or beef and Chinese broccoli or cabbage.

These can be wrapped or serve in other unique ways.

"Khao Lam" which is Bamboo sticky rice, is served inside a bamboo stick roasted in charcoal.

Being one of the hottest places in the world, there are a lot of stalls that sell many ice cream desserts like "Itim Kati" or coconut ice cream.

The most Instagrammed food is pizza, taking the lead in front of sushi and steak.

Instagram was bought by Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion dollars.

The top five countries that use Instagram, in order of popularity, are the United States, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, and the United Kingdom.

The top five most followed brands on Instagram, in order of popularity, are National Geographic, Nike, Victoria's Secret, 9GAG, and Nike Football.

More than 60% of its users log in on a daily basis.

Google really does in essence control the World Wide Web.

All this, whilst allowing you to look anywhere in the world at any point in time, and yet you will still always go straight to your street first.

Google often settles many arguments in my house and here we are going to look at some mind-boggling facts that will make you want to work, use and learn about Google even more!

In the early days of Google, it could process 30-50 pages per second, today it processes millions of pages per second.

The first of many Google Doodles was an out-of-office message in 1998, the doodle was a man standing behind an O, the second in Goo.

Whenever I need a new gadget or appliance Samsung comes to mind, from phones to TVs this Korean electrical superpower are market leaders in every area of electronics particularly in the cell phone industry.

Samsung are very focused on creating as much appliances as possible in house, around 90% of Samsung equipment is made in Samsung factories.

Six Flags and Samsung teamed up in 2016 to create North America's first Virtual Reality Rollercoasters which used Samsung Gear VR equipment.

Samsung truly are a world-wide employer, in 79 countries they employ over 236,000 staff.

They created the digital TV in 1998, the Watch phone and MP3 phone in 1999, the 3D home theater in 2010 and the world's first curved smartphone display in 2013.

The Machu Picchu archaeological site lies in a saddle between the peaks of Machu Picchu (the mountain) and Huayna Picchu.

In the official language of the Inca Empire, Quechua, Machu Picchu translates into "Old Peak" or "Old Mountain".

When Hiram Bingham stumbled upon the ruins of Machu Picchu in 1911, he was quick to share his discovery with the Western world.

In fact, Machu Picchu was never really lost.

This is a common misconception largely due to it never being reached Spanish Conquistadors in their invasion of Peru in the 16th Century.

A modern laptop is self-contained, with built-in rechargeable battery and peripheral equipment.

The user can also plug it in, for longer battery life and additional peripherals.

Most modern laptops feature integrated webcams and built-in microphones, while many also have touchscreens.

The first laptop was made in 1981 by British Designer Adam osborn.

In 1982, Grid Systems began to make many Grid Compass laptops.

Seoul is in the middle of the Korean Peninsula.

Seoul is situated in the northwest part of South Korea on the Han River.

Han River is a major river in South Korea and the fourth longest river on the Korean peninsula.

It is the 6th most populated city in the world, and 7th most crowded.

In the late 19th century, after hundreds of years of isolation, Seoul opened its gates to foreigners and began to modernize.

Adidas sued Payless ShoeSource in 2008 for releasing a pair of sneakers featuring 4 stripes instead of 3.

Jesse Owens wore a pair of Adidas when he won the gold in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Instead, Jesse Owens gave him a proverbial slap in the face by winning 4 gold medals wearing German manufactured shoes.

The 'Adidas Superstar', which was originally intended for basketball, became hugely popular with skateboarders in the early 90s.

The original Adidas Superstars weren't originally made in Germany, but in France.

Most importantly though, cats keep you from being lonely - and it's now known that loneliness plays a big part in many diseases!

While he lived in the White House he kept a number of pet cats, most famously Dixie and Tabby.

If you think of yourself as a "cat person", you're among 11.5% of people in the world.

The record for the largest number of kittens in the same litter was 19.

She gave birth to the entanglement of kittens on August 7, 1970 in her owner's home in Oxfordshire, UK.

Historically otters have been used by humans to aid in the process of fishing all over the world.

Nowadays this technique is still practiced in Bangladesh, where trained otters are used to chase fish into fishing nets.

You'd think this would pose a problem for a species which spends the majority of its time either in water, or hunting in water, but apparently not!

There are surprisingly more than 300 different horse breeds in the world!

Rather than being measured in feet and inches, horses are measured in hands.

In warmer countries, this amount is even higher.

In 2003, a horse was cloned for the first time.

Katy Perry joined Twitter in 2009, and as of 2019, has 107 million followers.

In addition to the issue of real and fake accounts, many users on Twitter who follow celebrities are not very active or have ceased to use Twitter completely.

Back in the day, the founders would refer to it as "twttr," following the trend of the early 2000's in removing the vowels and shortening the word.

In 2007, Twitter started to experience big growth, and its communications and media team would take advantage of popular conference and events in order to maximize usage and get more people to sign up.

During one conference in 2007, around 60,000 tweets per day were being posted on Twitter, which proved too much for the servers to handle at the time.

After Bingham returned to Machu Picchu in 1912 and started excavating the site, he made the suggestion that it was used as a sanctuary for Virgins of the Sun, of the Inca religion.

At the time of the Spanish invasion there were several thousand of these virgins, otherwise known as Chosen Ones, who were kept in temple like convents.

Based off all available evidence and the style in which Machu Picchu was constructed there is just one theory which is believed to be most likely.

Set over a 5 mile stretch of land, Machu Picchu has nearly 200 known buildings, with more being uncovered regularly in further excavation works.

These plates as they are called move in all sorts of directions and at different speeds too.

You might be wondering what in the world a tsunami has to do with an earthquake, well read on and find out more.

They aren't tidal waves but are actually caused from the forces of the moon and the sun and other planets in our solar system which affects tides.

You might have noticed when swimming in the ocean that with normal waves flow in a circular movement.

It would not be cool to see a tsunami heading in your direction, you certainly wouldn't be able to outrun it!

Copacabana and Ipanema are two of the most famous beaches in the world, and are widely regarded as two of the best beaches in the world too.

For an amazing piece of architecture, Sagrada Familia is a must-see and is situated right in the center of the city.

The entire cockpit is even covered in lightweight carbon-fiber CarbonSkin.

The 4.8-liter Trevita is a dual-supercharged V8 that reaches 0-60MPH in 2.9 seconds with a jaw-dropping 1018 Bhp under the hood.

They're sure to set the automotive world on fire and become the new poster boy in every teenage lad's room.

In fact, Amsterdam has 165 canals and 1,281 bridges - with a whopping 80 bridges just around the canal ring alone!

Amsterdam has the highest concentration of museums per square meter of all cities in the world!

Amsterdam has over 75 museums and some of the biggest art collections in the world.

There are that many museums in Amsterdam that even Amsterdam's Schiphol airport has a museum in it - making it the only airport in the world to have a museum!

There are more than 1 million bicycles in Amsterdam.

It reached 1 billion views in 88 days.

The video to reach the most views in the first day of being uploaded is the Star Wars: The Force Awakens Official Teaser #2.

It reached 112 million views in 24 hours.

In Thailand, YouTube was blocked for 5 months in 2007 due to a 44 second video that showed pictures of the king being defaced.

In 2011, 30% of all the videos on YouTube account for over 99% of views.

In 2002, NASA had some issues with the discontinuation of replacement parts they needed.

So they turned to eBay in hope of finding some second hand parts for their machinery.

Due to the stop in production, they used eBay as a tool to search for sellers who might have listed items or parts from the same machines.

But in a slow passive aggressive manner over time, they faded the yellow color until it eventually was back to being white.

This was in hope that customers would not notice the gradual change over time.

More than two-thirds of the world's cocoa is grown in Africa, and Côte d'Ivoire alone produces 33% of the world's supply.

A chocolate river existed in 1971.

In 1930, Ruth Wakefield mixed Nestle chocolate pieces into her cookie dough after running out of baker's chocolate whilst making chocolate cookies.

Lays sold limited edition crisps covered in milk chocolate said to have a "salty-sweet combination, along with the texture contrast of warm melted chocolate and a crunchy chip".

A thief took $28 million worth of gems in 2007 after gaining the guards trust at an Antwerp Bank by repeatedly offering them chocolate.

Driverless cars come in two categories.

Autonomous and automated, the difference lies in its ability to be controlled by something or whether it has self-governance.

Driverless cars really do belong in what I imagine as the world of the future, alongside robot butlers and a Windows Operating System that doesn't crash.

Now, this does excite me, who doesn't love the idea of jumping in your car and sitting back as it travels you across the country to wherever you're heading, but how far away are we actually from the dream?

First, we have to look at the pioneers in this automotive field, pushing the boundaries, trying to reach an otherwise impossible dream.

The world's shortest commercial flight is in Scotland, which connects two of their islands.

The flight can be finished in 47 seconds, and it spans a distance of just 1.7 miles.

It is among the finest and most sought after whiskeys in the world.

Scotch whiskey can only be labeled as such if it was made and matured in Scotland.

There are an estimated 3,000 castles in Scotland - which equals one castle for every 100 square miles.

M&M's are colorful little sugar-coated chocolate pieces that have stolen the hearts of generations in over 100 countries.

The story of M&M's began way back in 1941, right in the middle of the Second World War.

They were produced in a New Jersey factory, but due to the high demand, they had to be moved to even bigger premises.

During the war years, M&M's were sold only to the military, which meant that the everyday chocolate-lover didn't get to sample the glorious candy until the war ended in 1945.

Until 1950, there were no letters printed onto the pieces, and between 1950 and 1954, the letter 'm' was printed in black.

If you want to send money to a friend in Thailand and you were in the United Kingdom, you'd likely have to pay bank transfer fees, currency conversion fees, and more.

Bitcoins are held in digital wallets.

While the bitcoins in the wallet may still be in existence because they were recorded on the blockchain, they are no longer able to be spent because the wallet is lost.

In personal stores include Reeds Jewelers, One Shot Hotels, Holiday Inn (located in New York), and even local pizza places, restaurants, and more.

In New York, Samsung has a building called 837, known as a digital playground it's dedicated to showing off Samsung kit, from a huge theater display made of ninety-six 55" screens to a VR Tunnel and family-focused Playroom using Galaxy View.

Samsung is very focused on sustainability, in 2015 they began working with the UN to ensure 17 Sustainable Development Goals are met between 2016 and 2030 these include gender equality, ending hunger through sustainable agriculture, and combating climate change.

In 2014, a man killed his Thai girlfriend in their home with a Samsung Tablet after forbidding her to go on Facebook.

Between 2009 and 2013, the company has $4.8 billion invested in reducing 85 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.

Samsung was established in 1938 which is exactly 38 years prior to Apple.

432 people own half of the land in Scotland, however, there are outdoor access laws that allow privately owned land to be freely walked on and used as long as you leave no trace behind.

Construction started in 1826, but due to the lack of funds, was left unfinished in 1829.

Bagpipes were invented in Ancient Egypt and were brought to Scotland by the Roman invaders.

The oldest known tree in Europe is the Fortingall Yew in Perthshire, Scotland.

Haggis is typically made with the heart, liver, and lungs of sheep, and boiled with seasoning in the animal's stomach.

National Candy Cane Day is celebrated on 26th December in the United States.

The world's largest candy cane was created in 2011 and was 63 feet tall.

The candy cane was first mentioned in association with Christmas in 1874.

In 1882, candy canes were first hung on Christmas trees.

In 1921, Brasher O Westerfield invented the machine that could automatically make candy canes.

Sugar is found in the fibers of all plants, as a by-product of the process of photosynthesis.

Sugar occurs naturally in fruits, dairy products, grains, and vegetables.

Sugar is only found in high enough concentrations from two plants to make sugar crystals for food consumption: sugarcane and sugar beets.

Contrary to what many people believe, there are only 15 calories in a teaspoon of sugar, which can be burned off in 15 minutes simply by socializing with other people.

168 million tons of sugar were produced around the world in 2011.

Way back in the history of Australia, indigenous people were settled on the land for around 50,000 years before the British arrived.

Koala bears are popular in Australia, although there are 10 times as many camels as koalas.

There are no Bills of Rights in this country, making it the only Western country to omit this from its governmental system.

There are so many different types of species in Australia that only 25% of them have been discovered and are known to humans.

In Australia, there is a mountain called Mount Disappointment.

The modern game of tennis originated in Birmingham, England, in the late 19th century as lawn tennis.

It provides numerous vitamins and minerals and is relatively low in calories.

Nobody knows when yogurt was discovered, its origins have been lost in the mists of time.

What we do know for sure is that fermented milk was already being used in prehistoric times.

The ancient Eastern tribes who were nomadic shepherds preserved their milk, from cows, sheep, goats, horses and camels, in containers made from these animals' skins or from their stomachs.

Legend tells that yogurt was discovered because a shepherd, forgetting some milk in one of these skins for a while, when he finally remembered it, found it transformed : into something denser and tastier.

In addition to extensive banking, payment, and stock options that have become the norm online, there are also new currencies that have been created.

The most popular type of virtual currency is known as Bitcoin and has steadily begun to rise in popularity and strength over the years.

At first glance, Bitcoin may sound confusing, however below are ten facts that will truly explain in layman's terms what exactly bitcoin is and how it came to be.

The general concept of currency and money is that a bank controls it, that there are rises and falls in its value based on the global market, and that you can physically hold it.

It is, in fact, controlled by everyone who uses the bitcoin software to record and validate transactions of the bitcoins, then added to the blockchain across the globe.

It transports some substance through the atmosphere as in a dust storm, blizzard, sandstorm, etc.

South-East Queensland (and the central New South Wales coast) experiences the most damaging individual storms anywhere in Australia.

Systems with significant rainfall and duration help alleviate drought in places they move through.

In Australia, lightning accounts for five to ten deaths and more than 100 injuries annually.

More deaths occur when strong winds cause tree limbs to fall, debris to become projectiles and small boats in open water to capsize.

Tokyo is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.

It is one of the safest cities in the world.

Tokyo is a major cultural hub and an international trendsetter in the arts, entertainment, gastronomy, and media.

The Michelin Guide has awarded Tokyo by far the most Michelin stars of any city in the world.

There are more than 35 million residents in Tokyo that makes it largest and busiest metropolitan area in the world.

Panna cotta is an Italian dessert, most popular in Northern Italy, and probably originated in the Piedmont region of the country.

While many European custards get their firmness from adding eggs, gelatin makes panna cotta difficult to mess up, and eliminates the possibility that you will end up scrambling your eggs in hot custard mix.

The only thing you need know about this dessert besides the recipe is that you will need to prepare the dessert in advance so it has time to chill.

The pudding can either remain in the ramekin, or be unmolded and plated.

Nowhere is the subject of this dessert more completely covered than in the 2007 cookbook, Panna Cotta: Italy's Elegant Custard Made Easy by Camilla V Saulsbury.

The Internet was developed in the United States by the "United States Advanced Research Projects Agency" (DARPA).

The Internet was first connected in October, 1969 and was called ARPANET.

The World Wide Web was created at CERN in Switzerland in 1990 by a British (UK) scientist named Tim Berners-Lee.

Sprite was developed in West Germany in 1959 as 'Fanta Klare Zitrone' (Clear Lemon Fanta) and introduced to the United States as Sprite in 1961.

Fanta Klare Zitrone was renamed Sprite in West Germany in 1968.

Sprite is available in more than 190 countries.

Sprite picked up popularity with teenagers in the 1980's after several advertising campaigns targeted at teenagers.

In the 1990's, Sprite launched the 'Jooky' ad campaign, which poked fun at other soft drinks and their lack of authenticity and bandwagon-driven style of advertising, foremost among the competitive soft drinks mocked was Pepsi.

The ostrich is a large flightless bird that lives in Africa.

Ostriches now only live in Africa.

They live in open grassland called savannas in the Sahel, and in parts of East Africa and south west Africa.

Some ostriches live in areas of the Sahara desert.

There used to be ostriches in Middle East in the 20th century and, further back, also in Asia.

The two principal characteristics of a computer are: It responds to a specific instruction set in a well defined manner and it can execute a prerecorded list of instructions call a program.

There are four main processing steps in a computer: inputting, storage, outputting and processing.

Modern computers can do billions of calculations in a second.

Computers are used to control large and small machines which in the past were controlled by humans.

Most people have used a personal computer in their home or at work.

The heavy-hitter and global superpower, Apple, versus the widely used, customizable and in some weird way lesser, Android.

In 2004, the Android OS was developed with the backing of Google by Android Inc.

In 2005, Google paid $50 million for the OS.

In November 2007, Google launched the Linux-based software system, Android OS.

The first smartphone running Android was released in 2008, the HTC Dream or T-Mobile G1 depending on your country, it had a sliding keyboard.

Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America.

Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometers (770,000 sq mi), Mexico is the 13th-largest country in the world.

The border between Mexico and the United States is the second largest border in the world.

Mexico is the most populated Spanish-speaking country in the world.

Olmecs (1400-300 BC), is the first greatest civilization in Mexico.

Lincoln has been remembered as the "Great Emancipator" because he worked to end slavery in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in Hodgenville, Kentucky, United States.

His brother died in childhood.

They grew up in a small log cabin, with just one room inside.

Although slavery was legal in Kentucky at that time, Lincoln's father, who was a religious Baptist, refused to own any slaves.

This is called "soccer" in North America, South Africa, and Australia to avoid confusion with other types of football that are commonly played there.

The first football game played in 1869 when McGill University played Yale.

80% of the world's footballs are manufactured in Pakistan.

The ball is often kicked with the foot, but depending on the game, it can also be hit using other parts of the body (in association football) and handling the ball is a part of some other sports known as 'football'.

Some elements of football have been seen in many countries, dating back to the second and third century AD in China.

Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

Its orbital period around the Sun of 87.97 days is the shortest of all the planets in the Solar System.

Because Mercury is normally lost in the glare of the Sun (except during a solar eclipse), Mercury can only be seen in the morning or evening twilight.

Compared to what is known about the other planets in the Solar System, little is known about Mercury.

Two spacecraft have visited Mercury: Mariner 10 flew by in 1974 and 1975;

EBay was launched in 1995.

EBay was created by an Iranian-American computer programmer called Pierre Omidyar, in 1995.

In the first week, he listed it as $1 and to no surprise, it didn't sell.

Around 19 million British people use eBay in a month, to sell old and new items.

The UK also buys more items a month per capita than any other collective of countries in the world.

Spring rolls originated in China and the history of these rolls can be dated back to Eastern Jin dynasty.

In that period, thin cakes made of flour were very popular and were mostly accompanied with vegetables.

Spring dish gained immense popularity at the time of Tang and Song dynasty rule and in this period the dish was better known as five spice dish because of its hot and spicy flavor.

The spring roll recipe was a major feature in Chinese imperial menu.

Spring Rolls in China were called Chun Geun.

He was famous for getting so absorbed in his studies, that he forgot about social conventions.

Famously, he is said to have realised a principle of mathematics when he saw the displaced water after getting in the bath.

We cannot be certain this entertaining anecdote is 100% true, but he was a genuinely great mathematician, who in many ways was centuries ahead of his contemporaries.

Archimedes was born in Syracuse, a Greek city state in Sicily.

He continued to correspond with mathematicians back in Alexandria, and even during his lifetime, he gained a strong reputation for being a mathematical genius.

Milk is boiled at a high temperature before the curds and liquid whey is separated, and rennet (an enzyme found in the stomach of mammals) is added.

There are many types of cheese such as hard cheese, soft cheese, cream cheese, and processed cheese, all which can be used in cooking.

The Ancient Greeks credit the mythological hero Aristaeus, who discovered feta cheese, which is still widely used in Greek cuisine.

Those who are lactose intolerant (unable to process a type of sugar found in milk and milk products) should avoid eating cheese.

It was once believed that eating cheese before bed could cause nightmares, but in fact it had health benefits.

The incredible temples and religion of Bali, coupled with the partying, surfing, and deep Bali history, continues to draw in tourists year after year.

It's comparable in size to neighboring Brunei, but it would take you days to circle the island in a car or motorbike.

However, between October and April you will likely experience daily showers, with sporadic thunderstorms mixed in.

Weather in the tropics is tough to predict, but it's something to consider!

Although Indonesia is primarily a Muslim country, the main religion in Bali is actually Hindu.

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.

In English, Mars carries a name of the Roman god of war.

Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system.

Olympus Mons, a shield volcano, is 21km high and 600km in diameter.

Mars has the largest dust storms in the solar system.

They're then fried on both sides in a pan, often using oil or butter.

The earliest references to pancakes are in the poems of the 5th century BC poets Cratinus and Magnes.

William Shakespeare liked pancakes, often mentioning them in his plays.

The first pancake recipe that appeared in an English cookbook was in the 15th century.

Pancake Day, also known as Shrove Tuesday, is a special day that's celebrated in mostly English speaking countries around the world.

However, computers come in many shapes and sizes, and they perform many different functions in our daily lives.

If you love cats, you're in for a treat today as here we have some cat facts you won't want to miss!

They're cute, they're furry and they're one of the most popular house pets in the Western world.

If the answer is yes, you're in luck, because from this point onward cat facts is all we're going to be talking about!

While there are more US households with pet dogs, there are way more pet cats than dogs in total!

It's actually accurate, in most cases at least!

Another of the most basic terms in the study of economics is Interdependence.

In other words, you can't produce everything you need.

Farmers today usually specialize in one or a few kinds of food that they grow to sell to other people.

Some food grows better in certain areas of the world.

Rice grows very well in China and in Southeast Asia.

These adorable little guys have long, streamlined bodies that are just made for being in the water.

Otters spend a large amount of time in the water, yet they still have fur.

To ensure that they stay dry they must spend a significant portion of the day grooming themselves, coating their fur in saliva.

Otters can be found in unpolluted waters all over the world in marshland, freshwater rivers, lakes, oceans and coastlines.

There are 13 known species of otters, which range in size from 2.9 feet (90 cm) all the way to 5.9 feet (1.8 m) long!

The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus Amphibius), or hippo, ancient Greek for "river horse", is a large mammal in Africa that usually eats plants.

This means that even though it usually lives on the land, it spends a great amount of time in rivers and lakes where males lead groups of 5 to 30 females and young.

In the daytime, they keep cool by staying in the water or mud.

They give birth to baby hippos in the water, too.

Hippopotamuses rest together in the water, but they like to graze by themselves.

They work as a computer but are mobile devices small enough to fit in a user's hand.

IBM sold a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third-party apps in 1994.

2g was introduced in 1991.

3g was introduced in the early 2000s.

Depending on where they are, 3g phones vary in speed between about 200kbit/s to 14mbit/s (Megabits per second).

Nowadays a drone can be picked up for under $50 in most toy stores or superstores and are great fun.

Amazon are seriously considering the use of drones in its daily delivery, the Prime Air service is said to be able to deliver packages within 30 minutes via UAV's.

In remote areas, such as Africa, drones are used for the shipment of live-saving medical equipment and medication where human transport would be too time consuming.

Although not lifesaving, the idea is similar to that of those used in remote areas, delivering the product as quickly and as hot as possible.

The first country to build drones was Israel, with Israel Aerospace Industries heading the charge in terms of export numbers.

The name "Hoi an" was adopted in 1595 by Nguyen hoang, who saw the commercial potential of the port city.

In English and other European languages, the town was known historically as Faifo.

It is a city located in Vietnam's central Quang Nam Province, on the north bank near the mouth of the Thu bon River.

Hoi an became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.

They are arranged side-by-side in tight, unbroken rows along narrow pedestrian streets.

It's far more likely that you the car-buyer or house-buyer will have to borrow money from a bank (or a friend) in order to buy that house or car.

Banks like credit card accounts because people always end up paying more than the original price for an item and the banks get that extra money in the form of interest.

It is one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia.

Angkor, in Cambodia's northern province of Siem Reap, is one of the most important archaeological sites of Southeast Asia.

Angkor is one of the largest archaeological sites in operation in the world.

Many research projects have been undertaken since the international safeguarding program was first launched in 1993.

The scientific objectives of the research result in a better knowledge and understanding of the history of the site, and its inhabitants that constitute a rich exceptional legacy of the intangible heritage.

There are fewer bones in a horse than in humans.

It's only one bone less, but in total, there are 205 bones in the skeleton of a horse.

Horses are often seen in photographs "laughing" or "smiling", but this movement is actually to help them smell better.

There are an estimated 60 million horses in the world, combining wild and domesticated horses.

Horses can't see in full-color.

Eagles vary in length, weight and other dimensions due to their environments in many cases.

Eagles living in forested areas will likely have shorter wing spans, while those living in open areas will have longer wing spans.

After his death in 1836, Peter was stuffed and is still on display inside the very building upon which he once nested.

Eagles have been used in the police and the army several times, and in The Netherlands, eagles were trained to help control drones.

It is thought that larger eagles lived in New Zealand until the year 1400.

Jupiter is the largest and biggest planet in the Solar System with a diameter of 142,984 km.

The volume of Jupiter is 1,317 times the volume of Earth, in other words, 1,317 Earth sized objects could fit inside it.

Jupiter is the third brightest object in the night sky.

Jupiter is twice as massive as all the other planets in the Solar System put together.

It describes how a price is formed in a market economy.

In perfect competition, the quantity demanded and the quantity supplied will be equal.

For normal goods, and a normal market, there are four basic laws that determine the change in the market, if either supply or demand changes.

That other place can be a real place (to take a tour in another country, for instance) or imaginary (playing a game).

It's actually a way of allowing a person to completely submerse themselves in a game, movie or scene and is pretty genius.

They maybe see things in that space from different directions, and move things in that space.

Haptic feedback uses special gloves that make it feel like you touched something in real life.

Virtual reality is different than augmented reality, which shows the real place that a person is in, but changes or adds to it.

William Henry Gates was born on 28 October 1955, in Seattle, Washington.

In recent years he has retired from working full time at Microsoft, and has instead concentrated on working with his charitable foundation "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.".

In 1973, Gates enrolled at Harvard, where he studied mathematics and computer science.

However, Gates was more interested in pursuing his own coding, and when he saw an opportunity to found his own company, he dropped out of Harvard without finishing his course.

Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1976 when he formed a contract with Mits (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) to develop a basic operating system for their new microcomputers.

Born in Germany in 1879, Albert Einstein is one of the most celebrated scientists of the Twentieth Century.

His theories on relativity laid the framework for a new branch of physics, and Einstein's E = mc2 on mass energy equivalence is one of the most famous formulas in the world.

In 1921, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to theoretical physics and the evolution of Quantum Theory.

He applied for admission to the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

His first attempt was a failure because he failed exams in botany, zoology and languages.

Fish that is deep-fried in a crispy batter served with fat golden chips (French fries) on the side is still one of Britain and Ireland's favorite meals.

Chips had arrived in Britain from France in the eighteenth century and were known as pommes frites.

The first mention of chips was in 1854 when a leading chef included "thin cut potatoes cooked in oil" in his recipe book, Shilling Cookery.

Around this time, fish warehouses sold fried fish and bread, with mention of this in Charles Dickens' novel Oliver Twist published in 1830.

And since fish and potatoes were two of only a few foods not rationed in WW II, the traditional dish maintained its status.

Often referred to as the Chinese ravioli, wontons are a variety of thin-skinned dumplings with meat, seafood or vegetable filling enclosed in tender wheat dough wrappers.

Traditionally prepared during the Winter Solstice Festival, they were cooked in chicken broth until almost translucent.

Nowadays, wontons are available in numerous varieties.

In the North, they are most often stuffed with pork or lamb.

Further to the south, people make their wontons with egg wrappers and fill them with a combination of pork and shrimp, while in Cantonese cuisine, wontons are often served as an appetizer, deep fried and smothered in sweet and sour sauce.

An apple pie is a pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apple.

Many older recipes call for honey in place of the expensive sugar.

Apple pies or tarts have shown up, in one form or another, since the Middle Ages.

The 1381 recipe is the earliest known apple pie recipe in the world, and lists the ingredients as good apples, good spices, figs, raisins and pears.

Ingredients used in the Dutch style apple pie are different.

Bangkok is by far the largest city in Thailand.

In fact, it's roughly 8.2 million population is close to 13% of the entire population of Thailand.

Even if the city does seem horrendously busy and overcrowded, bear in mind that Bangkok is relatively small (population-wise) when compared to other major cities of the world.

The Chao Phraya River is as important as the River Thames is to London in defining the city's geography.

The Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s led many multinational corporations to locate their regional headquarters in Bangkok.

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

It is the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

The largest moon is Titan, which is larger in volume than the planet Mercury.

Titan is the second largest moon in the Solar System.

Saturn was named after the Roman god Saturnus (called Kronos in Greek mythology).

Lions are the only big cats to live in groups, called prides.

The females in the pride tend to do the majority of the hunting.

Two or more lionesses in a group tend to give birth around the same time, and the cubs are raised together.

Their vocalisations also vary in intensity and pitch.

YouTube is no doubt, the biggest video sharing service in the world.

Initially, YouTube was created to be a video dating site called "Tune In Hook Up.".

Only 18 months after YouTube was founded, Google bought it for $1.65 billion in stocks.

YouTube opened a production space in Los Angeles that is free to use - but only if you have at least 10,000 subscribers.

In 2014, the famous YouTube star, Grumpy Cat, earned more money Gwyneth Paltrow - an Oscar-Winning Actress.

In 1975, by presidential decree, Manila and its contiguous cities and municipalities were integrated to function as a single administrative region, known as Metropolitan Manila.

The city has undergone rapid economic development since its destruction in World War II and its subsequent rebuilding.

The strain on municipal services has had an adverse effect on the quality of life in the urban area.

Consequently, various government policies and resettlement projects have been implemented in an effort to address the problem of population density.

Manila is the centre of trade and finance in the Philippines.

Amsterdam is the capital and largest city in the European country of the Netherlands.

Unlike most other countries, the national government is not in Amsterdam, but in The Hague.

About 838,000 people were living in Amsterdam in 2016.

About 2.2 million people live in the metropolitan area.

Like other big cities in the Netherlands and elsewhere in the world, Amsterdam is unfortunately subjected to many criminal activities.

A giraffe is a mammal which lives in Africa.

They live on the Savannah, which is the African grassland, or in light woodland.

They do not live in thick forests where it is difficult to see predators, such as lions, approaching.

Giraffes live alone or in groups.

Giraffes live around 25 years in the wild and 28 years in captivity.

In general, the more money you make, the more disposable income you will have (although you are also taxed at a higher rate).

And the longer you take to pay back the loan, the more money you will pay in the end.

They have coarse, short fur that is yellowish tan in colour and covered in solid black spots.

Cheetahs have evolved to live in an environment where water is scarce, and can survive on one drink every three to four days.

Males however, live in small family groups of 2-3 brothers, known as coalitions.

The cheetah is the fastest land animal in the world, reaching speeds of up to 70 miles per hour.

They can accelerate from 0 to 68 miles per hour in just three seconds.

The origins of badminton can be traced back to the 1800s in India, where stationed members of the British military developed the sport.

In 1934, the International Badminton Federation was established as a formal governing body that continues to oversee the sport around the world.

Badminton is the fastest racquet sport in the world - shuttles can reach speeds of over 200 miles per hour!

There are badminton players around the world, and badminton has become the second-most popular sport in the world behind soccer.

The badminton name came from an estate called Badminton House in Gloucestershire, England.

The utility has to be more than the opportunity cost for it to be a good choice in economics.

And in the other words " Opportunity Cost " can be termed as cost of forgone alternatives or cost of shifting from one opportunity to the other.

It is also the capital and largest city in the region of Lazio, and the geographical region of Latium.

An estimate by the OECD put the number of people in the city area of Rome at 3.47 million.

He lives in the Vatican City, which is an enclave in the north west part of Rome.

There is a fast train that goes between the airport and the city center, the Leonardo Express, and many commuter railway lines to the nearby suburbs, along with long distance trains to other cities in Italy.

In the city itself, public transport consists of three metro lines (A, B, and C), six tram lines, and many bus routes.

The template for all modern computers is the Von Neumann architecture, detailed in a 1945 paper by Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann.

The meaning of the term has evolved to mean a stored-program computer in which an instruction fetch and a data operation cannot occur at the same time because they share a common bus.

For example, a user could perform a hardware upgrade to replace the hard drive with a SSD to get a boost in performance or increase the amount of files that may be stored.

The user could add a USB 3.0 expansion card in order to fully use USB 3.0 devices, or could upgrade the GPU for extra rendering power.

Disposing unauthorized computer equipment is in fact illegal.

Paris (nicknamed the "City of light") is the capital city of France, and the largest city in France.

The Metro was built in 1900, and its total length is more than 200 km (120 mi).

The Russian army seized Paris from Napoleon in 1814, and the Prussian army captured it in 1871.

The next time it was captured was by the Nazi Germans in 1940.

The Allies freed the city in 1944 and it has not since been captured.

Wine is mentioned in the Christian Bible over 500 times.

Bourbon whiskey made primarily from corn was invented in America in the 18th Century.

In 1876, the red triangle logo for Bass Pale Ale was made the world's first trademark.

The first beer can was invented in 1935.

Vodka's popularity in Russia was due to the fact it would not freeze during their cold winters.

Fog is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth's surface.

In turn, fog has affected many human activities, such as shipping, travel, and warfare.

The term "fog" is typically distinguished from the more generic term "cloud" in that fog is low-lying, and the moisture in the fog is often generated locally.

Fog begins to form when water vapor condenses into tiny liquid water droplets that are suspended in the air.

Water vapor normally begins to condense on condensation nuclei such as dust, ice, and salt in order to form clouds.

Twitter is one of the most popular social media platforms, with over 300 million active users logging in at least once a month.

While Twitter definitely allows you to "stalk" friends and celebrities by scrolling through their posts and seeing what they've been talking about, it could have been a completely different brand had the name "FriendStalker" won in the end.

The Vatican and the Catholic Church claims there are many things you can do to reduce your time spent in purgatory and become a better person.

However, in 2013, the Vatican announced that another way you can achieve this is by following the Pope and keeping up with live events such as the Catholic World Youth Day on Twitter.

The hashtag was first introduced in 2007.

The harvesting of wild seafood is usually known as fishing or hunting, while the cultivation and farming of seafood is known as aquaculture or fish farming (in the case of fish).

Historically, marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and seals have been eaten as food, though that happens to a lesser extent in modern times.

Findings in a sea cave at Pinnacle Point in South Africa indicate Homo sapiens (modern humans) harvested marine life as early as 165,000 years ago.

These are illustrated in tomb scenes, drawings, and papyrus documents.

Fishing scenes are rarely represented in ancient Greek culture, a reflection of the low social status of fishing.

Refrigerator is considered as an important electronic device for the people who live in the developed world.

In the past, the frozen foods were considered as an unusual item.

In America, people often used the term icebox to call a refrigerator.

In the mid-1750s, the artificial refrigeration was started.

In the beginning of 1800s, it was developed.

Snow forms when water vapor in the atmosphere freezes into ice crystals.

Snowflakes form in a variety of different shapes.

The highest snowfall ever recorded in a one year period was 31.1 meters (1224 inches) in Mount Rainier, Washington State, United States, between February 19, 1971 and February 18, 1972.

Snowflakes nucleate around particles in the atmosphere by attracting supercooled water droplets, which freeze in hexagonal-shaped crystals.

In the Southern Hemisphere, snow is confined primarily to mountainous areas, apart from Antarctica.

The e-Reader innovation had got a revolutionary move by a Spanish woman named Angela Ruiz Robles, in 1949.

This e-reader also contains a magnifying glass to read in a larger font, a backlight to read at night and an audio player to read with an electronic voice.

In 2009, eBooks accounted for 2% of the book sales market.

In 2014, more than 50% of the eBooks are permitted to be read on the phone.

Google is celebrating the savoury and satisfying Vietnamese street-food sandwich known as bánh mì, with a doodle showing all it's delicious preparation in motion.

In the doodle, a traditional bánh mì is put together, consisting of a baguette-like bread packed with meat, vegetables and herbs alongside a spread of mayonnaise or margarine and savoury soy sauce, topped fiery with chilli sauce or peppers.

In the 1860s, when France laid their first steps in Vietnam to start their invasion, the bread made from wheat flour also arrived in Vietnam.

At that time, a baguette was an expensive dish, which was only served to the upper class or French, because wheat could not be planted in Vietnam due to the tropical weather and imported wheat flour was very expensive.

The baguette was one of them, and when Vietnamese tried the baguette they remade it by adding rice flour to the ingredients, which is always available in this agricultural country, made it shorter and baked it in a different way.

There are just three different types of species in the peafowl family.

Two of these originate in Asia and the other is of African descent.

The African species is called the Congo peafowl and originated in the Congo basin.

However, in the wild where life is riskier, peacocks and peahens generally live up to 20 years.

Although they vary in size, males are often as much as twice the size of their female counterparts.

A classic starter or a side dish to any Korean meal, these spicy, salty, sweet and sour vegetables known as kimchi start their way sliced, tied in bundles.

It is marinated in brine with hot chili peppers, salty fish paste, leeks, ginger, sugar, and garlic.

Although the popularity of kimchi is still rising in the West, it is an ancient dish, dating about two thousand years back, when it was first mentioned in written documents.

Because kimchi was soaked only in brine or beef stock in the past.

Nowadays, kimchi is made both in North and South Korea, the Southern version being more salty and spicy than the Northern one.

Barcelona is seen as one of the most beautiful cities in the world, full of life and features on many bucket lists.

It is one of Barcelona's most celebrated festival days in which loved ones are given roses and books.

In 1992, Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympic Games.

One example is opening the new beaches in the Poble Nou area.

In 2007, about 1.6 million people lived in Barcelona.

Marilyn Monroe, baptized as Norma Jean Baker , was born in June 1926.

She is widely regarded as one of most influential figures in American culture.

Just after her 16th birthday, in 1942, Monroe married her 21 year old, next door neighbour Jimmy Dougherty.

In 1943, her husband left to join the Merchant Marines to participate in America's War effort.

To earn a living, Marilyn took a job at a local munitions factory in Burbank, California.

In addition to transportation, the company offers food delivery and digital payments services via mobile app.

The company was originally founded in Malaysia and later moved its headquarters to Singapore.

It now operates in the Southeast Asian countries of Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Japan.

Each time the company enters a new market, they buy smartphones for drivers in countries that they expand to, allowing those drivers to pay daily instalments for the phone.

The idea of creating a taxi-booking mobile app for Southeast Asia similar to those being pioneered in the US first came from Anthony Tan.

Rabbits can make a cute house pet, but they also live in the wild, if you've got one as a pet, read these twenty awesome facts about rabbits.

For assisting in digestion they need hay which helps them to prevent forming of fur balls in stomach.

The droppings of a rabbit are widely used as a fertiliser in gardens.

Rabbits easily suffer heat stroke and therefore prefer to live in cool places.

In total, a rabbit has only 28 teeth for eating.

Due to the thick layer of fen and clay present in the soil of the city, all the city's buildings were erected on wooden poles that are fixed into a sandy layer of the ground over 35 feet deep!

Widely regarded prior to this as the economic and cultural "capital" of the Netherlands, Amsterdam was only officially recognized as the capital in the early 80s.

If somebody dies in Amsterdam and is not claimed by any friends or relatives, then they will receive a burial from the state in Amsterdam.

This is a service that the Dutch government offers for anyone who dies and is left unclaimed in Amsterdam, not just Dutch citizens.

The smallest house façade in the entire world is in Amsterdam at Het Singel 7.

Fashion designer Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel , or Coco Chanel, born in 1883, in France, is famous for her timeless designs, trademark suits and little black dresses.

She was the only designer to be listed in the Time 100 most influential people of the Twentieth Century.

Chanel was raised in an orphanage and taught to sew.

She had a brief career as a singer before opening her first clothes shop in 1910.

Chanel performed in clubs in Vichy and Moulins where she was called "Coco." .

The plant is a small leaf bush, with multiple stems, that can reach up to three meters in length.

The most popular locations for the plant are the Sunset Peak and Tai Mo Shan in Hong Kong.

The leaves have been have used in various beverages for over 4000 years.

Nowadays, the leaves and other parts of the plant can be used in dietary supplements, various health products and even cosmetics.

The Camellia Sinensis plant can be grown in the sun and in the shade.

A bunch of people give a company money, and in return those people (called investors) get a certain amount of shares of stock.

The reverse is usually true as well: The lower the stock share price goes, the less shares the company will usually sell and the the less will be coming in.

In fact, when the price goes down, more people sell than buy.

It lives in Asia, mainly India, Bhutan, China, Korea, and Siberian Russia.

The white coat only appears once in every 10,000 births.

Tigers vary in size depending on their subspecies.

Located in the Quang Ninh province of Vietnam is Halong Bay.

This bay is famous for its more than 1960 limestone, rocky, tall islands which are rich in tropical vegetation.

Halong Bay is approximately 579 square miles in size and is home to approximately 1600 fishermen who live in floating villages.

Research has shown that there were prehistoric humans in the area tens of thousands of years ago.

The bay extends 120km along the coastline and is 1,553 square kilometers in size.

Chocolate truly is one of the wonders of the world, in the past it has been that valued it's actually been used as currency.

In 2014 US chocolate sales were $21.1 billion, that alone shows the significance and the demand for the product.

Winston Churchill at one point was in danger of a Nazi assassination by an exploding bar of chocolate.

Joseph Fry invented the first chocolate bar in 1847.

In 1947, hundreds of Canadian kids went on strike and boycotted chocolate after the price of a chocolate bar jumped from 5 to 8 cents.

It is a terrestrial planet because it has a solid, rocky surface like other planets in the inner solar system.

Venus is the brightest object in the night sky except for the Moon.

Venus is sometimes called the sister planet of Earth as they are quite similar in size and gravity.

In other ways the planets are very different.

Venus was the first planet to have its motions plotted across the sky, as early as the second millennium BC and spins very slowly on its axis, it spins in the opposite direction to the other planets.

Turtles are found in Africa and America.

Tortoises are found mainly in Asia and Africa, but also in America.

Doughnuts are often eaten in the morning, along with a cup of hot coffee.

Doughnuts are a health concern in Canada where each person eats more doughnuts per year than any other country.

There are also "doughnut holes" or "munchkins" which come in the shape of small balls.

Some doughnuts are rolled in sweet foods such as sugar or shredded coconut.

The doughnuts get their name from Hanson Gregory, who "put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center, where the dough might not cook through".

Today it is a Special Administrative Region of China in the eastern Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea.

The people of mainland China moved to Hong Kong in 221 BC.

In the 1900s, this region became a special refuge to Chinese exiles.

In 1941, the fear of the communist party led a huge number of immigrants to flee China and settle in Hong Kong.

The region was officially recognized as a free port in 1950.

Now we all love food don't get me wrong, and who can beat a nice meal in a more upmarket restaurant?

Wagyu beef itself must come from a specific breed of Japanese cattle with incredibly high in fat marbling, allowing the meat to in essence melt in your mouth.

Saffron holds the title of the most expensive spice, with Spanish Saffron for example costing around $300 an ounce in Walmart.

Truffles are one of the most expensive ingredients in the world, with white costing more than the black varieties.

Truffles are held very highly in society and are incredibly tasty but in many people's opinion the price is nothing more than a status symbol with white truffles costing up to $1,400 per pound.

Neptune ,is the eighth and last planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

Neptune also has the strongest winds of any planet in the solar system, measured as high as 2,100 km/h or 1,300 mph.

Because of Uranus's odd movements in its orbit (the line which a planet follows in moving), it made astronomers search for the new planet.

Neptune once had a huge storm known as the "Great Dark Spot" which was discovered in 1989 by Voyager 2.

However, the dark spot was not seen in 1994, and new spots were found since then.

In addition to art, Da Vinci studied all aspects of life from anatomy to mathematics and astronomy;

Da Vinci is considered to be a key person in the birth of the European Renaissance, which saw an emergence of new ideas, scientific discoveries and the creation of beautiful art.

He grew up in Vinci, Italy.

In his formative years, he developed a love of nature and from an early age began to display his remarkable academic and artistic talents.

In 1466, he moved to Florence where he entered the workshop of Verrocchio.

Reptiles are cold blooded animals that raise their body temperature by lying in the sun or lower it by crawling into the shade.

Because of this, snakes that live in colder climates must hibernate through the winter.

There are more than 2,900 species of snakes in the world.

They live almost everywhere, in deserts, forests, oceans, streams, and lakes.

Snakes live on the ground, in trees, and in water.

The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake).

Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic sports, with varied distance events in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, and individual medley.

In addition to these individual events, four swimmers can take part in either a freestyle or medley relay.

In competition, there are distinct regulations concerning the acceptable form for each individual stroke.

Evidence of recreational swimming in prehistoric times has been found, with the earliest evidence dating to Stone Age paintings from around 10,000 years ago.

Bloomberg terminals are essentially unrivaled within the finance world and have contributed to the company's massive growth in its 39-year history.

Bloomberg was founded in 1981 as Innovative Market Systems and has since grown into a major international operation employing more than 20,000 individuals.

The central component of the company-the Bloomberg terminal, which provides real-time market data and analytics - was already in place at the founding.

However, a report by Business Insider indicated that the company generated more than $10 billion in revenue in 2018.

Central to the company is the Professional Services wing, which at some points in Bloomberg's history has accounted for close to 90% of its yearly revenue.

The word software was first used in the late 1960s to emphasize on its difference from computer hardware, which can be physically observed by the user.

The word firmware is sometimes used to describe a style of software that is made specifically for a particular type of computer or an electronic device and is usually stored on a Flash memory or ROM chip in the computer.

Earthquakes can sometimes be really scary things, but they are very interesting in how they form and why they do.

In many places such as California and Japan, where earthquakes are common, the government lets the people of the country know when an earthquake is about to strike by sending mobile phone alerts.

In Japan, they even send alerts to your TV!

This is an area of stress in the Earth.

At fault lines the rocks are sliding past each other and will eventually cause a crack in the Earth's surface.

Brimming with culture, this city won an award in 2016 for being the best travel destination.

Westminster Abbey, which opened in 1090, is highly educational as well as very interesting.

Find a friendly youth hostel or stay in one of the five-star hotels.

Next, we have another interesting place in the world - Florida, USA.

Certainly not a country most people will visit during their lifetime, but for those in search of something different, it's a great choice.

The seats even have a line of 'V's running from top to bottom just in case you forgot the model!

The Hypersport features in everyone's favorite blockbuster street-racing film saga, Fast and Furious, crashing through 3 Dubai skyscrapers like a vehicular Spider-man.

Abu Dhabi Police even purchased one, so if you ever find yourself in the area, remember you really do stand no chance in a race.

This 3-unit exclusive Lamborghini is quite literally named Poison (Veneno in Italian).

History has the first recorded mention of cheesecake as being served to the athletes during the first Olympic Games held in 776 BC.

Centuries later, cheesecake appeared in America, with a variety of regional recipes brought over by immigrants.

Modern commercial American cream cheese was developed in 1872, when William Lawrence, from Chester, New York, while looking for a way to recreate the soft, French cheese Neufchâtel, accidentally came up with a way of making an "unripened cheese" that is heavier and creamier, other dairymen came up with similar creations independently.

According to New Yorkers, only the great cheesecake makers are located in New York, and the great cheesecake connoisseurs are also in New York.

In the 1900s, cheesecakes were very popular in New York.

Adidas, the German footwear maker, celebrated its 65th anniversary in 2014.

While it is still in direct competition its arch-rival Nike, Adidas has managed to garner much attention to the brand with new and improved designs from world renowned designer Jeremy Scott, and the introduction of new ground-breaking technology such as their Ultra Boost line of products.

In this article, we're going to explore 30 facts about Adidas that every self-professed sneaker head should know.

There was a park in Boston that was known as "Adidas Park" by locals where nothing but Adidas brand sneakers was allowed.

Adidas nearly avoided bankruptcy in the 90's after the brand had made admittedly poor strategic decisions.

We gathered a list of facts and figures about one of the most interesting sports in our list Basketball Facts.

Earlier, The basketball used to be brown in color.

The NBA and the BAA were two different basketball associations in 1949.

Air Jordan 1 shoes were banned in the NBA.

Women's basketball was added to the Olympics in 1976.

McKinsey is one of such businesses: it is one of the best-known global management consultancy groups in the world.

This company has been in business for nearly a hundred years, working with governments, non-governmental organizations, leading businesses as well as not-for-profit organizations.

In order to bring new ideas, innovation, and capabilities to the table for customers, McKinsey has increased its network of partners to include 150 of the world's leading tech-product companies.

They tackle problems with the end in mind.

They think in terms of solutions.