The Mall in Washington, D.C. is 1.4 times larger than Vatican City. See more

Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants. See more

The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. See more

The largest employer in the world is the Indian railway system, employing over a million people! See more

You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory. See more

A company, Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song 'Happy Birthday'. See more

Former enemies, America and Russia now have a great deal in common - they both lead the world in locking people up. See more

The 'save' icon on Microsoft Word shows a floppy disk, with the shutter on backwards. See more

There are 100 million internet users in China. Some of the sites they can't access are BBC news, Amnesty International and Dalailama.com. See more