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.
At any given moment around 1 million people are airborne in aircraft worldwide. 
The Royal Penthouse Suite at Geneva's Hotel President Wilson costs around $80,000 a night. It takes up the entire eighth floor, with 12 bedrooms and bulletproof windows. 
The world's oldest hotel is Japan's Nishiyama Onsen Keiunkan, founded in 705 AD and run by the same family for over 1,300 years. 
Most hotel thefts involve towels, followed by coat hangers and the batteries out of remote controls. 
Many hotels skip room number 13. Lift maker Otis estimates that around 85 % of high-rises with its lifts have no 13th floor at all (triskaidekaphobia). 
Dubai's Burj Al Arab is often called a 7-star hotel, even though officially the scale stops at 5 stars. 
In Thailand it is illegal to step on money, because it carries the image of the king. 
In Venice you can be fined for feeding the pigeons on St Mark's Square. 
In Germany it is an offence to run out of fuel on the motorway, because it counts as an avoidable breakdown. 
In Florence you can be fined for eating on the pavement in certain streets of the old town. 
Paris has banned love locks on its bridges since 2015, after their weight collapsed a railing on the Pont des Arts. 
On Sardinia it is illegal to take sand from the beaches, and fines start at €500.
