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.
Whittier, Alaska, has about 270 residents, and 80 to 90 percent of them live in the same 14-storey building, Begich Towers. 
Streets in Japan often have no names. Addresses are based on blocks and building numbers. 
Stockholm's metro is considered the world's longest art gallery, as more than 90 of its 100 stations are decorated with artwork. 
La Paz (Bolivia) is the highest seat of government in the world (~3,640 m). 
Bruges has an underground beer pipeline (3 km long) connecting a brewery to its bottling plant. 
Singapore's Changi Airport has a rooftop swimming pool, a butterfly garden and an indoor waterfall. 
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson is the world's busiest airport by passenger numbers, with 108.1 million travellers in 2024. 
Airline food tastes different in the air: low cabin pressure and dry air cost us around 30 % of our sense of taste. 
Pilots and co-pilots eat different meals on board, to cut the risk of both being struck by food poisoning at once. 
Cabin crew walk an average of 7–10 km over the course of a long-haul flight. 
An aircraft's black box is not black at all. It is bright orange, to make it easier to find. 
Jet lag is worse flying east, because the body adapts more easily to a longer day than to a shorter one.
