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Approximately 141 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged worldwide every year.
Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
Men in Japan receive more Valentine's Day chocolate than women, thanks in large part to effective ad campaigns.
Every Valentine's Day the city of Verona, Italy, is flooded with letters addressed to the fictional "Juliet" from William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet.
Columbia University is the second largest landowner in New York City, after the Catholic Church.
Thomas Edison invented more than 2,000 new products, including almost everything needed for us to use electricity in our homes: switches, fuses, sockets and meters.
Electricity always tries to find the easiest path to the ground.
In ancient India high class courtesan women were expected to master fencing with a sword and the staff.
The result of burning fossil fuels currently adds almost six billion tons of CO2 into Earth's atmosphere each year. Only half of these were absorbed by forests and oceans.
The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City.
Brazil is the heliport capital of the world.
India is the world's largest tea producer, and tea (chai) is its most popular beverage.
All of India is under a single time zone.
Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it is known as Tennessee.
Every major world religion is represented in India. Additionally, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism all originated in India.
The distress code 'Mayday' comes from the French for help me, M'Aide!
The word Tips is actually an acronym standing for 'To Insure Prompt Service'.
There was no punctuation until the 15th century.
Canada is an Indian word meaning "Big Village".
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
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