Work, employees and 007

On Mondays, more heart attacks occur than on any other day of the week.

An hour of planning saves normally 10 hours of trial.

For the last 3 years, Singapore has been the easiest country where you can start up a new business.

Statistics show that 80% of employees prefer not to go to work on Monday mornings.

The first touristic destination in the world is France. 60 million tourists come annually, as much as the whole French population.

Around 200 billion emails are exchanged on a daily basis. More than 97% of them are spam.

More than 90% of the people attending conferences tend to sleep or day dream. Less than 5% of the attendance can recall correctly the topics discussed.

The Kuwaiti Dinar is the most expensive currency in the world. 1 KWD is equal to 3.62 US Dollars

More than half of the world’s population have seen at least one James Bond movie! The most famous 007 agent remains Sean Connery.

Chocolate, Champagne and strawberries

Watermelons contain 97% of water, lettuce 97%, tomato 95% and carrots 90%


Chocolate was discovered in the sixteen’s century in Europe, people of that time found it to be “as good as sin”


It's champagne only if it comes from Champagne!
Champagne is an agricultural region in the middle of France famous for its vineyards that produce the legendary sparkling white wine!


Carrots contain zero fat, cucumbers contain zero calorie and zero fat.


Strawberry is the only natural fruit that contains zero fat and zero calorie.


Water is the only necessary element for human life, all others can be replaced or substituted.


Coca-Cola is the most consumed beverage in the world after water.


Daily consumption of red wine is believed to be the main reason behind the high longevity of French people which is the highest in the world.


Americans are the biggest consumers of meat worldwide,
They are also the biggest consumers of fast foods.


Avocado is the natural fruit that contains the most fat.

Ohio, Rome and US oil

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, all are man-made.


The driest place on Earth is in the valleys of the Antarctica near Ross Island.
There has been no rainfall there for two million years.


There are more Italians in New York City than in Rome, Italy.


There is a city called Rome on every continent.


The volume of water in the Amazon river
is greater than the next eight largest rivers in the world combined and three times the flow of all the rivers in the United States.


Although covered with ice (all but 0.4% of it),
Antarctica is the driest place on the planet,
with an absolute humidity lower than the Gobi desert.


There are more Jews in New York city than in Tel Aviv, Israel.


The largest country in the world is the Russian Federation. It extends over 11 different time zones;

when the sun rises on Vladivostok in the morning,
It is sunset at Saint Petersburg.


The soil of the USA contains deep oil fields with huge reserves. While the exact quantities are not disclosed, many experts believe that there is enough quantities of oil that would suffice for the consumption of the USA for 100 years, conservatively.

The US, Antarctica and New York City

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies.


The Amazon River pushes so much water into the Atlantic Ocean that, more than one hundred miles at sea off the mouth of the river, one can dip fresh water out of the ocean.


The ice formation in Antarctica represents seventy percent of all the reserves of fresh water in the world.


The water of Angel Falls (the world's highest) in Venezuela
drops 3,212 feet (979 meters).
They are 15 times higher than Niagara Falls.


As strange as it sounds, Antarctica is essentially a desert;
the average yearly total precipitation is about two inches.


Canada is an Indian word meaning ' Big Village '.


There are more Irish in New York City than in Dublin, Ireland.


The deepest hole ever drilled by man is the Kola Super deep Borehole, in Russia.
It reached a depth of 12,261 meters (about 40,226 feet or 7.62 miles). It was drilled for scientific research and gave up some unexpected discoveries,
one of which was a huge deposit of hydrogen,
so massive that the mud coming from the hole was boiling.


If New York city had the same population density as Alaska,
only 25 people would be living in it.

Water is life

An adult human being can stay alive ultimately for 30 days without any food, but only seven days without water.


70% of a human body is made from water.


Lack of water in the human body is the first cause of fatigue during the day.


A simple reduction of 2% of the water in the human body may cause short term memory incoherence, lack of concentration, writing and typing errors.


According to the university of washington, a glass of water in the evening helps to reduce the feeling of hunger for persons who are on diet.


Five glasses of water per day can reduce the risk of colon cancer by 45%, breast cancer by 79% and vesica cancer by up to 50%.


Some studies reveal that 8 to 10 glasses of water per day may significantly reduce back and articulation pain for up to 80% of those who suffer such symptoms.


Drinking water at appropriate times during the day can maximize its positive effects on human body:


Two glasses of water in the morning help activating the internal organs,


One glass of water before any meal helps digestion,


A glass of water before bed reduces the risk of heart attacks.


At last but not least, water would be the only proof of a possible extra terrestrial life on any planet.