• The average kitchen refrigerator in the United States contains six items that are more than two years old.

• The average roll of toilet paper in the developed world is consumed within two months of manufacture.

• Server-side programming has been declared 'the wave of the future' each year from 2003 through 2011.

• Eighty percent of people born in the northern hemisphere never visit the southern hemisphere.

• Approximately 95,000 people cross the equator more than four times a day.