A world of meaningless facts

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How expensive is an HIV infection?

In 2006, 226 people tested positive for sexually transmitted HIV infection. Each HIV case costs an average of DKK 2 million in treatment costs.

The Milky Way consists of approximately 100 billion stars in a disk-shaped spiral with an extension of about 100,000 light years.

One percent of women have a sperm allergy. This means that the skin swells and itches where it was in contact with the man’s semen.

At the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, only 241 athletes participated.

The world’s oldest envelope is 4000 years old and originates from Egypt.

Snow is also used as a slang term for cocaine.

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer

There are 1618 football clubs in Denmark (2009)

Modern paper airplanes as we know them today date back to 1909.

Google had approximately 4 billion search page views in May 2009 in the UK alone.