The five permanent members of the UN Security Council, have a primary responsibility, under the Security Council Charter, for the maintenance of international peace and security.
However, these five permanent members of the UN Security Council - France, Russia, China, the UK, and the USA - together account for 88 per cent of the world's conventional arms exports.
There are 2.1 billion Christians in the world. This includes just over a billion Catholics, about 350 million Protestants, and the Orthodox and Anglican faiths.
Islam is the world's second-largest religion, with roughly 1.3 billion followers -- including 940 million Sunnis and 170 million Shiites, as well as those belonging to other Muslim faiths like Sufism. Hindus are the third largest group at just under a billion.
Product placements on network primetime shows increased about 30% last year to 106,808, according to Place Views, Nielsen Media Research's product placement tracking service.
Shows with the most product placements included NBC's "The Contender" and "Fear Factor," Fox's "American Idol," and CBS' "The King of Queens."
Around 825 A.D. in Baghdad, Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizimi wrote a book called "Kitab al-jabr wa al-muqabalah", which means "The science of restoration and reduction" and stood as the major algebraic work of the period.
The word "algebra" comes from this title ("al-jabr"), since this was the first textbook used in Europe for this subject.
The word "algorithm" is a distortion of al-Khwarizmi's name.
Rapper Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle. With the hit "Ice Ice Baby", his debut album sold more than a million records each week and is to this day, the Number 1 debut record of all time!
A sidenote: Under pressure as a white rapper to gain street credibility, his publicists put out the story that he attended an all-black high school in the ghetto, when his real upbringing was in the suburbs.
The = sign ("equals sign") was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".
Founded in 1928, Motorola was originally a pioneer in car radios. Thus the name "Motorola" was originally a combination of "motor" and "ola" (as in the "Victrola" phonograph).
The company invented cellular technology and marketing the first commercial handheld cell phone in 1983, the DynaTac (aka "the Zack Morris phone").
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