Bhutanese Citizens Often Wear Traditional Dress in Public

The Hawaiian language uses just 13 characters: 5 vowels (a, e, i, o, u), 7 consonants (h, k, l, m, n, p, w), and the glottal stop ʻokina. This makes it one of the languages with the fewest phonemes in the world. Despite its simplicity, Hawaiian produces complex, flowing words.

Finland has a population of about 5.5 million people but an estimated 3.3 million saunas — roughly one sauna for every 1.7 people. This outnumbers the country's registered cars. Saunas are deeply embedded in Finnish culture; there are even saunas in the Finnish parliament building.

The unicorn has been part of Scottish heraldry since the 12th century. In Celtic mythology, the unicorn symbolized purity, power, and independence. It also appears on the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom, chained — because legend held that a free unicorn was dangerous.

For the first time in history, women now outnumber men among university graduates in most developed countries and globally. In the United States, women earn about 57% of all bachelor's degrees. In the OECD, 56% of new graduates are women. This trend is driven by higher female educational attainment rates and greater ambition in academic achievement. However, gender gaps remain in STEM fields — particularly engineering, computing, and physics.