Author: Ros Geller
Busiest Airports in the World: Top 10 by Passengers
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta is the busiest airport in the world, handling 106.3 million passengers in 2025. It is the only airport on Earth to pass 100 million, and it has held the top…
Most Spoken Languages in the World: Top 10 Ranked
English is the most spoken language in the world, with about 1.49 billion speakers. Only around a quarter of them speak it as a first language, which is the single most revealing…
Best-Selling Albums of All Time: Top 10 Ranked
Michael Jackson’s Thriller is the best-selling album of all time, with a widely cited 70 million copies sold. Independently certified sales, the copies that can actually be documented, come to 51.4 million.…
Best-Selling Wii Games of All Time: Top 10 Ranked
Wii Sports sold 82.90 million copies, more than any game on any Nintendo console and one of the best-selling video games ever made. Almost none of that came from people choosing to…
Right-to-Work States: All 26 Listed and Explained
Twenty-six US states have right-to-work laws, meaning no worker can be required to join a union or pay union dues as a condition of employment. That number fell from 27 in February…
Largest Employers in the World: Top 10 by Headcount
The three largest employers on Earth are all armed forces. India’s Ministry of Defence, the US Department of Defense, and China’s People’s Liberation Army employ 8.45 million people between them, more than…
Most Watched Netflix Shows of All Time: Top 10
The most watched show in Netflix history is in Korean. Squid Game drew 265.2 million views in its first 91 days, and the franchise now occupies three of the ten places on…
Most Ballon d’Or Wins: All 10 Multiple Winners Ranked
Lionel Messi has won the Ballon d’Or eight times, three more than Cristiano Ronaldo and five more than anyone else in the award’s history. No other player has won it more than…
Best-Selling PlayStation 2 Games of All Time: Top 10
Two franchises account for the entire top five of the PlayStation 2’s best-seller list. Grand Theft Auto holds three of those places and Gran Turismo the other two, and no other series…
Common Law Marriage States: Where It Still Exists
Only seven US states and the District of Columbia still allow couples to enter a common law marriage. Rhode Island became the most recent to close the door, abolishing new common law…
Most F1 World Championships: All 17 Multiple Winners
Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton share the Formula One record with seven World Drivers’ Championships each, and no one else has more than five. Between them they account for 14 of the…
Most Populous Countries in the World: Top 10 Ranked
India and China are the only countries on Earth with more than a billion people, and together they account for over a third of humanity. India passed China in 2023 and now…
Best-Selling PlayStation Games of All Time: Top 10
The best-selling game on the original PlayStation was not Final Fantasy VII. Gran Turismo sold 10.85 million copies to Final Fantasy VII’s 10.02 million, and those two are the only PlayStation games…
Longest-Running Broadway Shows: Top 12 by Performances
The Phantom of the Opera played 13,981 performances on Broadway between 1988 and 2023, a record that stands more than 2,200 performances clear of anything else. It is the only show in…
Dying Without a Will: Who Inherits Under State Law
If you die without a will, you do not decide who inherits your property. Your state does, through a set of default rules called intestate succession that apply identically to everyone who…