10 unnecessary, ridiculous facts about the world population

Hey, it's a shame that such a hit like ‘15 million people’ is no longer relevant in no time. Yep, us little humans are just scurrying around on this planet. What are we doing here? Nobody knows. And maybe that's just as well.

Time to dig up some strange facts... 

1. Starting with an incredible mindfuck: the entire world population (7.5 billion people) could fit in Los Angeles. If we all squeeze together shoulder to shoulder, it fits. How bizarre!

2. The number of people living today is part of the 7 percent of the total number of people who have ever lived on Earth.

3. According to a study developed for National Geographic in 2011, the ‘most typical’ person in the world is right-handed. This person earns just over 10,000 euros a year, has a mobile phone, but does not have a bank account. Complicated, right?.

50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens first appeared, and since then, more than 108 billion members of ‘our species’ have been born. Joejoe, welcome to the family!

5. More than 52 percent of the world population is under 30 years old. I didn't see that one coming either.

6. By the way, there seems to be a website that tracks the world population in real time, but it makes your eyes very tired because it's an ongoing process.

7. There are more than 24 time zones around the world. If the time zones of the Earth were each an hour apart, we would have 24 time zones (which sounds quite simple), but the situation is a bit more complicated. Because many time zones differ by only 30 or 45 minutes, they don't fit into 24 hours, which means there are more than 24, although it's hard to say exactly how many. Uh, error.

8. I totally didn't know this: with 221,800 islands, Sweden is believed to have more islands than any other country in the world. Only about 1,000 of them are inhabited. 220. Thousand. So. Not?!

9. More people speak Mandarin (Chinese) than any other language.

10. In total, there are 28 royal families ruling over a total of 43 countries around the world, including Japan, Spain, Swaziland, Bhutan, Thailand, Monaco, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Liechtenstein.