In accordance with intellectual property laws, photos of the Eiffel Tower in daytime are legal for resale, while night shots showing the light show are not.

Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, received in total 114 various medals, orders and awards.

In 2009 Eiffel Tower was painted for 17th time since 1889, and the painting required 60 tonnes of paint.

Since introduction of one-child policy in 1979, China is estimated to have three to four hundred million fewer people in 2008 than it would have had if this policy weren’t enacted.

Dharavi, the slum depicted in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, is the biggest slum in Asia housing over 1 million people.

While Holland occupies less than one-thousandth of the world’s surface, it is the third largest exporter of agricultural produce.

The quite rare two-dollar bills are regularly given as change at the gift shop in Monticello, town where Thomas Jefferson, featured on the face side of the banknote, lived.