World’s Top 10 Countries - Tourism Destinations

Following my latest post about the Portuguese tourism, find out below the top 10 countries that received more tourists in 2012.

Source: UNWTO

Portugal had more tourists than Brazil in 2012

This is a surprising result, because Brazil has an area which is 92 times bigger than Portugal.

In 2012, Portugal had 7,6 million tourists, which is not even close than the world tourism country leader (France) which received 83 million tourists in the same year.

However, although its size, Brazil had only 5,6 million tourists in 2012.

The Brazil tourism performance will certainly increase in 2014 with the Football (Soccer) World Cup and in 2016, with the Rio Olympic Games.

Source: UNWTO

Nissan Develops Self-Cleaning Car

It’s a new paint technology that repels dirt, effectively making for a self-cleaning car

Check below the video from Nissan.

Hollywood movie that generated the biggest financial loss

As you can imagine, not all Hollywood movies are profitable and some can have astronomical losses.

The Hollywood movie that generated the biggest financial loss to date is “Cutthroat Island” starring Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella, Maury Chaykin, Patrick Malahide, Stan Shaw, Rex Linn, and Paul Dillon. This movie was directed By Renny Harlin.

It is estimated that “Cutthroat Island” movie total losses were 147,2 million dollars.

Check the trailer below:
 

Source: Watchmojo

Origin of Gold

Gold is usually related with wealth because is a heavy rare metal and gold color is magnetic to human eye.

But, if you think about the origin of gold you will be amazed and will never look again in the same way to your gold ring or to your gold necklace.

So, where gold came from?
The answer is from a Supernova, which means from the collapse and explosion of a dying star.

Before our Sun, there was a bigger star in this space area that eventually died and exploded generating almost all elements that you can find in our solar system and specifically in our planet.

Gold is created in the heat of the explosion of a star core during a Supernova event, where iron of the star core is converted to gold due to the fusion of iron, generating heavier elements than iron, elements as gold or platine.


Source: Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking

All world population fits in half of Luxembourg

It’s a general concern that our world lacks resources to keep up with current population growth.
However, surface area of our planet is not one of those lacking resources.

Check this out:

. In average a standing person occupy 0,36 m x 0,50 m of ground (=0,18 m2)

. It is estimated that current world population is 7.225.000.000

. If you join all world population in standing position you will need only 1.300 km2

. The Luxembourg area is 2.586 km2

 So, if you create a huge plaza with a surface area with the size of half of Luxembourg area, you could join there all world population in standing position.

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