It’s that time again folks, this week’s #factfriday is an interesting one… and it includes The NeverEnding Story. We all love The NeverEnding Story. Check out what the RE-UP team learnt last week:
- Contrary to popular belief Artax (the horse in The Neverending Story) didn’t die on set. The horse was actually gifted to actor Noah Hathaway, who played Atreyu in the film – Bill
Warning: Tears imminent
- The Museum of Endangered Sounds exists to allow streaming of once popular technological sounds. ie. the dial-up tone, ICQ chat tone, Windows 95 startup. – Laura
- Putting it in comparison, the research found that this London transport ticket is four times the cost of a comparable fare in Paris, three times more than New York, and ten times more expensive than Moscow. – Fannie
- This comes as no surprise, but still interesting! 90% of Instagram users are younger than 35. – Krish
- 80% of all Pinterest pins are actually repins. – Andrea
- Lucile: I found this very cool social media infographic, which gives a load of interesting facts!
Key info:
The region with the highest social media penetration rate is North America (57%) followed by South America (59%) and East Asia (57%)
Instagram is mostly used by women (64%), while LinkedIn is in majority used by men (56%)
58% of Facebook users are above 18 years old vs. only 19% on Twitter.
39,757 years are collectively spent on Facebook in a single day by its active users
Every second, 8,796 pictures are shared on Snapchat
Most popular pages: Coca Cola on Facebook, Chanel on Twitter, Lego on YouTube and Instagram
- Marco: Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. BOOM!
- Laurent: Dutch police cars are “equipped” with a teddy bear, in case something troubling happens to a child