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.
The average German spends around €1,100 per holiday trip. 
There are spots in Chile's Atacama Desert where no rain has fallen since records began. 
North Korea has its own airline, Air Koryo. For years Skytrax rated it the only airline in the world with just one star out of five. 
Mount Everest now has a serious rubbish problem, with an estimated 50 tonnes of waste lying on the mountain. 
Colombia's Caño Cristales is known as the river of five colours, thanks to its vivid aquatic plants. 
Turkmenistan has a natural gas crater that has been burning since the 1970s, known as the Gates of Hell (Darvaza). 
At 9,288 km the Trans-Siberian Railway is the world's longest rail line, running from Moscow to Vladivostok across 7 time zones. 
The wheeled suitcase was only invented in 1970 (by Bernard Sadow). Before that, travellers carried every bag by hand. 
Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan are the world's only doubly landlocked countries, where every neighbour is landlocked too. 
North Korea and Cuba are the only two countries where Coca-Cola cannot officially be bought. 
Finland has around 3 million saunas but only 2.7 million cars on the road, for 5.6 million people. 
Contrary to the myth, the Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye, as astronauts have confirmed.
