Fun facts from around the world
Curious facts about destinations, sights and travelling, each with its own illustration. The same ones greet you every time you sign in to Activento.
About a quarter of the Netherlands lies below sea level, and without its dykes more than half the country would flood. 
Socotra (Yemen) has 825 plant species, and 37 percent of them grow nowhere else. With dragon's blood trees and desert roses, it's called the most alien-looking place on Earth. 
The Orient Express first ran from Paris to Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1883, and the luxury journey took around 80 hours. 
Bali's Nyepi is a Day of Silence. The whole airport closes for 24 hours and light and noise are forbidden. 
Since late 2025 the world's tallest hotel has been Dubai's Ciel Tower, 377 metres over 82 floors. 
Mexico has an underwater museum (MUSA) with over 500 sculptures on the seabed off Cancún. 
In South Korea many high-rises have no fourth floor. 4 sounds like the word for death, so the lift button reads F instead. 
The Las Vegas Strip is technically not in the city of Las Vegas at all, but in the townships of Paradise and Winchester. 
Copenhagen's skyline stays so low because a legal height limit applied to new buildings in the centre for decades. 
Peru has more than 3,000 varieties of potato, which originally comes from the Andes. 
The Pacific island of Nauru is the world's smallest republic, just 21 km². 
Many Game of Thrones scenes were filmed in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and the city runs official GoT tours.
