One billion pounds of pasta would need approximately 2,021,452,000 gallons of water to cook it. This is equivalent to 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.

Ten years ago, only 500 people in China could ski. This year, an estimated 20,000,000 Chinese will visit ski resorts.

A Nigerian woman was caught entering the UK with 104 kg of snails in her baggage.

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