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.
Copenhagen has 754,200 bicycles, more than its residents and over five times its private cars. Cyclists even get their own traffic lights and jams. 
At about 2.166 million km², Greenland is the world's largest island that is not a continent in its own right. 
New Zealand has more than four times as many sheep as people, around 23 million animals for 5.3 million residents. 
Morocco has a blue city, Chefchaouen, where almost every building is painted blue. 
The Great Barrier Reef is about 2,300 km long and, at roughly 344,000 km², almost the size of Germany. It is the largest living structure on Earth, visible from space. 
Colombia celebrates a Day of Laziness (Día de la Pereza), a holiday in the town of Itagüí devoted to doing nothing. 
Summer in Coober Pedy often tops 40 °C, so about half its residents live in dugouts that stay around 24 °C all year, churches and hotels included. 
Florida's Kennedy Space Center offers visitors real rocket-launch viewings, ear protection included. 
Ecuador is smaller than Germany, yet it's home to around 1,600 bird species, about 15 percent of all bird species on Earth. It's considered the most biodiverse country per km². 
In Petra, Jordan, many façades were carved straight into rose-red sandstone. Europe had forgotten the city until Johann Ludwig Burckhardt rediscovered it in 1812. 
Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat at 10,582 km², nearly 12 times the size of Berlin. After rain it turns into a giant mirror. 
Nobody has been buried in Longyearbyen on Svalbard since 1950, because bodies do not decompose in permafrost. Contrary to the myth, dying there is not actually forbidden.
