The world, one wow at a time

560

Woolly mammoths were still alive 560 years after the Great Pyramid was built

2,000+

Africa has 2,000 languages. AI understands fewer than 42.

277 GW

China installed more solar in one year than the US has ever built. Total.

$2.9T

The world spent $2.9 trillion on the military last year. Ending extreme poverty would cost $300 billion.

186

You check your phone 186 times a day. You probably don't realise it.

77/hr

Lagos grows by 77 people every hour

$189B

Gaming makes more than movies, music, and books. Combined.

49% of gamers are women. The stereotype is decades out of date.

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40%

Americans throw out 40% of their food. 35 million Americans are hungry.

1889

Nintendo is older than the fall of the Ottoman Empire

8 hours

The 8-hour workday took a bomb, a riot, and 4 hangings to win

165M km²

The Pacific Ocean is bigger than all of Earth's land combined

4%+

US data centres now use more electricity than Pakistan.

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167M

TikTok users watch 167 million videos every minute

229 yrs

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire

35,000

You make thousands of decisions a day. By evening, your brain is cooked.

0.72

South Korea's birth rate is so low it may halve its population

95%

Your car is parked 95% of its life

51%

More than half the internet isn't human

$340K

Norway has $340,000 saved for every single citizen

2018

In Ethiopia, it's still 2018

62%

Canada has 62% of all the world's lakes

1 tonne

A single lightning bolt packs the energy of 1 tonne of TNT

1% > 95%

The richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% combined

90%

90% of the world's data was created in the last 2 years

2,500

Nigeria makes more films than Hollywood. Every year.

Jägermeister has 56 secret herbs. It was invented as medicine.

1,800

It takes 1,800 gallons of water to make one pound of beef

500 yrs

Cleopatra lived closer to the iPhone than to the pyramids

$1.43T

Africa handles two-thirds of the world's mobile money

1,250%

Petrol in South Africa cost R1.73 in 2000. Today it's R23.36.

500+

Nobody actually knows how April Fools' Day started

170:1

The Falkland Islands have 170 sheep per person

3.3M

Finland has more saunas than cars

France has 12 time zones. More than Russia.

4M+

Mongolia has more horses than people

255

Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt

$191B

AI training costs grew 100x in five years. Who can still afford to build?

340%

Solar grew 340% in South Africa. Load shedding lit the fuse.

25 yrs

How long until you own a home? Depends where you live

3.2°C

Can the world hit a single 2030 climate target?

42%

Remote work settles into its new normal

18.3M

18.3 million EVs sold in 2025. Who's going electric fastest?

277M

277 million subscribers and Netflix still can't chill

2.25B

The world drinks 2.25 billion cups of coffee a day. Who's most caffeinated?