Countries of the World

There are over 300 million active Twitter users, making it one of the most popular social media platforms. Every minute, an average of 350,000 new tweets are posted on Twitter! The hashtag was introduced into the digital world in 2007 by Chris Messina. There were doubts the hashtag would catch on, with many believing it appeared too techy. Needless to say, they were wrong!

People who play action video games develop a heightened sense of their surroundings and are able to make decisions faster. A study showed that surgeons who regularly played video games made 37% fewer errors and performed their tasks 27% faster than their non-video-game-playing colleagues!

The word ‘bankrupt’ comes the Italian ‘banca rotta’, which literally means ‘broken bench’. This refers to the early days of banking in Italy, where the public marketplace would take place literally at the bench. If the banker ran out of money or behaved badly, his bench would be smashed to smithereens.