Soccer is the most popular sport with approx 3.5 billion fans worldwide and 250 million players across 195 countries around the world. The next most popular sports in the world are cricket (2.5 billion fans)- basketball (2.2 billion fans), and field hockey (2 billion).
Dallas cowboys are the most valued sports team in the world with $5.7B valuation, followed by NY Yankees and NY knicks. Barcelona and Real Madrid round up the top 5 with $4.76B and $4.75B valuation respectively.
Most touchdown passes in NFL history belong to Tom Brady with 626, Drew Brees is no. 2 with 571 and Peyton Manning rounds up top 3 with 539 passes.
Sachin Tendulkar of India holds the world record of 15, 921 runs in Test cricket followed by Australian Ricky Ponting at 13,378 followed by Jac Kallis of South Africa with 13, 289 runs.
Michael Jordon, the American Basketball Legend is the richest Athlete in the world with USD $2.2 billion net worth. Tiger Wood, the famous golfer is at number 5 with $800M. Lionel Messi, the Argentinian soccer star is at number 8 with $600M.
Elon Musk is the richest person in the world with $273.5 billion with Tesla. He is followed by Gautam Adani, India and Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
Warren Buffett, nicknamed the “Oracle of Omaha” is greatest investors of all time. He is one of the top 10 richest people in the world with a net worth of $116.5 billion. He is the chairman and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), which owns over 60 companies, including Geico and Dairy Queen.2
George Lucas is the richest celebrity in the world 2022. He is the creator of ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Indiana Jones’ franchise.
Jamshetji Tata is the biggest donor/philanthropist in the world who has given away over $102 billion, he is followed by Bill Gates at $75.8billion followed by Oraclle of Omaha at $32.1billion
Antilia the residence of Industrialist Mukesh Ambani in Mumbai, India is most expensive, valued at USD $2.2B
Atherton 94027 in Silicon Valley, California is the most expensive zip code in the world.
Lover’s Deep Luxury Submarine, St.Lucia ($292,000.00 per night) the Lover’s Deep Luxury Submarine Hotel is the most expensive hotel in the world.
Usain Bolt is the fastest man alive. In 2009 Jamaican sprinter set the world record in the 100-meter sprint at 9.58 seconds.
Robert Wadlow is the tallest man on earth at 8’11 inches, Jyoti Amege, from India is the shortest at 2’11inches.
Over the last 65 years the global literacy rate increased by 4% every 5 years – from 42% in 1960 to 86% in 2015. 14% of world’s population can’t read/write and considered illiterate.
There are 5000 airlines in the world, with three largest fleets are all in US with American airlines topping the list followed by Delta and Southwest making it 3rd. Over 100,000 flights take off and land every day in the world.
World War II was a global war that spanned from 1939 to 1945. The war pitted the Allies and the Axis power in the deadliest war in history, and was responsible for the deaths of over 70 million people. Known for its genocidal campaign against the Jewish people, the war was also responsible for the deaths of more than 50 million civilians.
Avg person spends over 7 hours a day watching the screen, out of which 2 1/2 hrs is on social media
United states is the richest country in the world with $20 Trillion in GDP followed by China at $11.2 trillion followed by Japan at $9.8 trillion
11.1% or 860M people in the world live in extreme poverty, less than $1.90 per day. In US, 10.5% live in poverty.
The worlds population is 7.7 billion. China and India lead with 1.42 billion and 1.41 billion people with US population at 338million rounding up the top three.
There are over 7000 languages in the world, with top 3 being English, Mandarin ( China) and Hindi (India). Over 1,100 million speak English and Mandarin while Hindi is spoken by 625 million worldwide.
From a religion perspective, Christianity is followed by 2.382billion, Islam followers at 1.907billion, Secular/agnostic at 1.193 billion and Hinduism by 1.161 billion
On an avg we sleep 33 years in our lifespans, out of which we spend about 7 years trying to sleep.
Global average life expectancy of 72.6 years. Min in Africa at 63 years to Max in Europe 79 years. Asia has avg life expectancy at 73 years and Americas with 76 years.
There are total of 195 countries in the world. Out of which 152 are developing countries with a current population of around 6.69 bn. At 85.33%, this is a considerable proportion of the world’s population. Rest are developed.