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.
Chimborazo's summit in Ecuador is 6,384 km from Earth's centre, over 2 km farther than Everest's, because Earth bulges at the equator. 
Dubai has an indoor ski slope with real snow in the middle of the desert, with 40 °C outside. 
The Canary Islands are named not after canaries but after the large dogs that lived there (Latin canis = dog). 
In Spain it is traditional to eat 12 grapes on New Year's Eve, one for each chime of midnight. 
Lake Titicaca (Peru/Bolivia) is the world's highest navigable lake, at around 3,812 metres. 
In Sri Lanka a sideways wobble of the head signals agreement, the opposite of the Western gesture. 
The world's oldest tree (Methuselah, a bristlecone pine) stands in California and is over 4,800 years old. 
Norway has Europe's longest coastline. It is about 2,500 km as the crow flies, some 29,000 km counting fjords and bays, and nearly 103,000 km including every island. 
In Finnish Lapland you can sleep in a glass igloo and watch the northern lights from your bed. 
Ushuaia in Argentina calls itself the world's southernmost city and is the gateway to Antarctica. Chile's Puerto Williams lies further south but has only about 3,000 residents. 
Estonia has allowed online voting since 2005, the first country in the world to do so. 
Costa Rica is home to around 5 % of all known species on earth, on just 0.03 % of its surface.
