52 MOST POWERFUL & RARE HISTORICAL PHOTOS (VOL. 56)

Apple sold 340 000 iPhones per day in 2012.

Antarctica is the only continent without a time zone.

80%of the land in Nevada is owned by the U.S. government.

In 1908 the Imperial Russian Olympic Team arrived in London 12 days too late for the games because they were not using the Gregorian calendar yet.

Researchers believe the first human case of HIV was in Kinshasa Congo around 1920.

Twitter's bird is called Larry.

Finland is part of Fennoscandia not Scandinavia.

In 1999 it was reported in the UK that over 3 000 people were hospitalized after tripping over a laundry basket.

In 2005 MySpace was in talks to buy Facebook but rejected Mark Zuckerberg's asking price of US$75 million as too expensive.

Desertification threatens the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people in 110 countries the U.N. says.

In 1789 New York City became the first national capital of the U.S. for a year.

The hand print of Nelson Mandela resembles the African continent.

The human brain is about 75% water.

China has more internet users on mobile devices than on PCs.

The world's first underground park will be inaugurated in 2018 in New York.

Octopuses have 3 hearts.

Despite Global Warming we're still technically in an Ice Age.

In 1892 over 200 people left Australia to create "New Australia " a utopian socialist settlement in Paraguay.

Tiger Day is the last Sunday in September.

In 2013 a bacteria was found in New Zealand that's resistant to every single antibiotic known.

In China you can major in Bra Studies.

Papaphobia is the fear of the Pope.