Did you know that English happens to originate from the geographic area that is present-day northwest Germany and the Netherlands?

The capital of Norway remains the most expensive city of the world. In terms of prices and overall expensiveness Oslo is way ahead of London, Zurich and Paris. The New York street network is the longest in the world. It exceeds 10 000 km. And the average time people spend on their way to and from work is also reaching for a record of its own – almost two hours every day.

It was the math department at UCLA that masterminded the famous shot of Scarlett and her father with Tara in the background. It was too complicated for the film studio to put together, so they had to ask some mathematicians to work it out!