1. Venice is in the north of Italy and it stands on 118 islands.
2. The London Underground has 400 km of tunnels and it is the longest in the world.
3. A Dutchman bought Manhattan island in 1626 and he only paid about 24$.
4. Barbara Cartland is the world's most popular writer and she has sold about 400 million copies of her romantic novels.
5. Women live longer than men and they have an average life of 77 years.
6. The oldest city in the world is Jericho and it had a population of 3000 people in 7,800 BC.