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Their claim to fame is helping their clients find and achieve most of their important goals while significantly improving on performance.

They are also expanding their own technological offerings by including cloud solutions, industry-specific solutions as well as microservices.

They're creating awareness about their ideas through the right channels.

These fancy names are new locations that McKinsey & Company have opened up across the world to enable their clients to get a real feel of business and technological solutions.

These facilities are there to up the user experience of their clients by test implementation of tech strategies.

They cause a lot of damage to anything in their path.

Downbursts are frequently confused with tornadoes, though their action is not similar.

Walmart employees often have to use food stamps as well, to make ends meet on their reportedly low wages.

Most of their CPUs are used in embedded systems for more specialized things, like in mobile phones, cars, game consoles, or in the military.

Three college students, down on their luck and in rent arrears, plotted, schemed, and grafted away night-after-night in an effort to avoid having their rental lease terminated and keep themselves off the streets.

In celebration of this momentous achievement and their more than ten years in business, here are 20 Fun Facts about Airbnb, that you probably didn't know.

With the debt piling up and the landlord on their tail, for rent arrears, Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nate Blecharczyk, found themselves between a rock and a hard place.

With no immediate options available to them to cover their costs, the three of them got creative and decided to rent out an airbed in their apartment to budget-conscious tourists or those simply in need of a safe place to lay their heads.

Airbnb was formed in San Francisco in 2008, and it's in that very city where Airbnb plays host to it's most loyal customers and fans, with the Sanfranciscan's on average spending five and half days in each property and splashing out a whopping $1,045 for their stay.

Not bad for three down on their luck guys struggling to pay rent, a little over a decade ago, right?

Airbnb's first year was very successful for the three founders, it changed their lives that year and kept a roof over their heads, and they only had four hundred guests!

A staggering seventy-five Airbnb hosts make at least a million dollars a year by renting out their properties.

Making Airbnb one of the best businesses for homeowners to get into to not only make some extra cash but possibly change their lives forever.

Starting up in their apartment in San Francisco in 2008, Airbnb had little use for an office, but as the company grew, this quickly became a necessity.

Airbnb has one of the strongest customer ratings in the industry, with more than 96% of guests being happy with the site, service, and their stay.

These are the kind of number's hotels, and B&B's can only dream of achieving and is a testament to their hard work, attention to detail, and most importantly, their customer service skills.

The planets of our solar system hold more than 150 moons in their orbits.

They may be designed to look like humans, in which case their behaviour may suggest intelligence or thought.

In fiction, however, robots usually look like people, and seem to have a life of their own.

Because it takes a long time to send a radio signal from Earth to another planet, the robots do much of their work alone, without commands from Earth.

The ancient Eastern tribes who were nomadic shepherds preserved their milk, from cows, sheep, goats, horses and camels, in containers made from these animals' skins or from their stomachs.

Each of the independently owned shops and cafes have their own feel which creates a unique composition.

While many European custards get their firmness from adding eggs, gelatin makes panna cotta difficult to mess up, and eliminates the possibility that you will end up scrambling your eggs in hot custard mix.

Sprite described the flavor of their drink as lymon, a mixture of both lemon and lime, and this has since become one of their key marketing terms.

In the 1990's, Sprite launched the 'Jooky' ad campaign, which poked fun at other soft drinks and their lack of authenticity and bandwagon-driven style of advertising, foremost among the competitive soft drinks mocked was Pepsi.

In 2004, Coca-Cola created Miles Thirst, a vinyl doll voiced by Reno Wilson (the voice of Frenzy, Mudflap and Brains from across the Transformers films) in order to exploit the hip-hop market to advertise their range of soft drinks.

Both males and females have white feathers on their wings and tails.

Most people have used a personal computer in their home or at work.

They were the first dedicated Android website and their first post came the same day as Google officially announced Android in 2007.

They sent 2 Nexus S handsets running Android Gingerbread into space to test their sensors in orbit aboard the International Space Station.

Of course if you are an Apple fan that is completely understandable, just look at their user base they must be doing something right as well!

There are many ancient statues of gods sticking out their tongues, such as Huitzilopochtli, which may be a sacred gesture that suggests their thirst for blood.

The Aztecs sacrificed 1% of their population every year or about 250,000 people.

Their agricultural products are rice, beans, coffee, fruit, and tomatoes.

It is named football because the players of the game walk and often run (on their feet) while playing, as opposed to (for example) polo where the players ride horses.

It was a copy of their single released in 1996 called "You & I".

Even better, eBay also named one of their conference rooms after him.

So they turned to eBay in hope of finding some second hand parts for their machinery.

Due to a high volume of complaints after they changed to white, eBay respected their customers choice, so they changed it back to the bright yellow.

Their selling process is one of the simplest platforms available online which makes it accessible to almost everyone.

They may be large or small, eaten as snack food or as part of a meal, their fillings differing from region to region.

Spring roll recipes are famous throughout the world and have their own variations.

In 1995, Microsoft made the first of their Windows operating systems and streamlined the design of future laptops.

Their pancakes have pink champagne, lobster, truffles and caviar.

In France, people like to make a wish before flipping their pancakes.

What we're talking about is the technical term to refer to cats by their gender.

Cats have a natural ability to land on their feet called the "righting reflex".

This reflex allows cats to quickly assess which way is down and rotate their bodies while in mid-air.

They can also be called an "intrigue of kittens" due to their curious nature.

Some cats have a slightly different purr for when they're hungry, and mother cats also use their purr to communicate with their newly birthed kittens.

Most unexpectedly, cats sometimes purr when they're injured, and it's been suggested their purr actually helps their body to heal faster!

While kittens can drink their mother's milk, feeding them cow's milk could be very dangerous to their health.

Physically, at least, their brains are about 90% similar to ours.

Their brains are smaller, weighing just 0.9% of their total weight while ours weigh 2%.

The people who use their own hands to make everything they could ever want are rare these days.

To ensure that they stay dry they must spend a significant portion of the day grooming themselves, coating their fur in saliva.

This is possible because their fur is so dense, with around a million hairs per square inch.

Sea otters are known for their remarkable ability to use rocks to smash open shellfish to fill their stomachs.

The majority of otters spend most of their time on land.

Most species of otters actually spend their time on the banks of rivers and other bodies of water when they're not hunting.

In a bizarre turn away from their normal diet, there are some otters in the Shetland Islands in Scotland which have been known to hunt rabbits instead of fish.

No matter the size of the group though, you will always find them playing around, wrestling, chasing their tails and having an otterly great time.

Otters are raised by their mothers.

Otters are born with their eyes closed, and as soon as they open they have a lot to learn like swimming and hunting.

River otters rarely make their own homes.

River otters are much more likely to take another animal's home instead of building their own.

Otters can hold their breath for a really long time.

Sea otters can hold their breather underwater for more than 5 minutes, and river otters can hold theirs for more than 8!

Otters eat 15-20 percent of their bodyweight daily.

Otters have to eat vast amounts of food every day, which takes up a significant portion of their time.

It's key to their survival to eat such great quantities, especially for sea otters, as they use up so much energy keeping themselves warm.

A lot of species of otters were once at risk of becoming extinct due to their highly sought-after fur.

A Hippo's main defence is their extremely strong mouth.

Their closest living relatives are cetaceans (whales, porpoises, etc.) from which they diverged about 55 million years ago.

Male hippos seem to keep on growing for their whole lives.

Hippos can close their nostrils and ears to prevent water from entering.

Considering their enormous size, a Hippo's food intake is relatively low.

Domino's are trialling drones for their delivery process.

Drones are going to revolutionise the farming world, allowing farmers to view all their field whilst drinking a cup of tea.

The drone gives them a view of their field including damaged crops and those ready to harvest.

Drones are becoming more and more popular for weddings, giving the couple a 360 view of their big day.

The DRL uses venues such as sports stadiums and warehouses to illuminate a track and have the players maneuver their crafts around whilst racing one another.

With these factors, soon enough the law will tighten on these crafts and the limitations and regulations regarding their use will limit the fun a normal person with a few bucks can have.

Temples such as Angkor Wat, the Bayon, Preah khan and Ta prohm, exemplars of Khmer architecture, are closely linked to their geographical context as well as being imbued with symbolic significance.

The inhabitants venerate the temple deities and organize ceremonies and rituals in their honor, involving prayers, traditional music and dance.

Horses are called different names depending on their gender.

Their diet is plant-based.

For a regular horse, their top speed is approximately 27 miles per hour, although the fastest horse ever recorded could reach 55 miles per hour!

The eyes of a horse are bigger than those of any other land mammal, and the fact they are located on the side of their heads means they can see almost 360 degrees.

Their teeth take up tons of room.

Like humans, horses have different facial expressions to express their moods.

Horses have their own form of measurement.

Eagles vary in length, weight and other dimensions due to their environments in many cases.

Their wing spans may have reached up to 9.8 foot (3 meters).

Although eagles can live up to 70 years, this isn't always the case and they normally become weaker towards the end of their lives, unable to hunt as they used to.

In Churchill, Canada, residents will leave their cars, and sometimes their homes unlocked as an escape for people who need to escape from a polar bear.

As of 2009, at their Mountain View headquarters, Google rented 200 goats to mow their lawns as a low-carbon alternative from California Grazing.

Google's new employees are known as Nooglers, they are required to wear blue, yellow and red hats at their first company-wide meeting.

If a Google employee dies, their spouse gets half of their salary for 10 years.

Samsung are delving into the world of AI technology for their mobile devices rivalling the likes of Cortana or Siri.

The Electronics giant actually created their first ever fighter jet the KF-16.

This is a common misconception largely due to it never being reached Spanish Conquistadors in their invasion of Peru in the 16th Century.

Also known as the Vilcabamba, where the last rulers of the Inca Empire held out against Spanish tyranny until their demise in 1572.

In 1995, Microsoft made the first of their Windows operating systems and streamlined the design of future laptops.

Adidas offered legendary BMX riders Ryan Nyquist and Dave Mirra their own signature sneakers to increase its popularity amongst BMX riders.

Adidas's Tubular line of sneaker was actually inspired by car tires and the "tubular snake" originally was created to emulate tires and their threading.

Most unexpectedly, cats sometimes purr when they're injured, and it's been suggested their purr actually helps their body to heal faster!

Twitter's early days were not without their problems.

It has become one of the most iconic selfies of all time, as well as being a hugely popular tweet, and many people have sought to replicate it on social media with their own selfies.

A recent survey even showed that as much as 63% of Amsterdammers use their bicycles daily.

Japanese women give chocolate hearts to their loved ones on 14th February.

On 6th December during the feast of St.Nicholas, children in Holland put their clogs outside at night so Santa Claus can fill them with chocolate money.

The 1920s saw inventors take their first test run with the "Linrrican Wonder", debuted Houdina Radio Control, it was a radio-controlled driverless car and was shown traveling through a traffic jam in New York City.

In 2009 Ford brought the next gadget in the driverless car repertoire to their vehicles by producing those with a self-parking system as standard.

Since 2010 Google has been working on driverless cars but in 2012 their self-driving car transported its first user, a blind man, and say their self-driving car will be available to the public in less than 5 years.

The world's shortest commercial flight is in Scotland, which connects two of their islands.

They combined their surnames and used the initials to create the household name that we know and love today.

During the day, employees were consuming thousands of the tiny chocolate delights, which eventually started to worry their bosses.

For many Australians, this is their only access to urgent medical assistance.

In 2014, a man killed his Thai girlfriend in their home with a Samsung Tablet after forbidding her to go on Facebook.

In February 2017 Samsung managed to secure another world first after their QLED TV managed to be the first TV ever to be capable of reaching 100 percent color volume meaning a truer picture and more defined image.

Scotland wanted to build a replica of the Parthenon, bigger and cheaper to be their National Monument.

Women should limit their sugar consumption to 6 tsp.

There are many ancient statues of gods sticking out their tongues, such as Huitzilopochtli, which may be a sacred gesture that suggests their thirst for blood.

The Aztecs sacrificed 1% of their population every year or about 250,000 people.

Temples such as Angkor Wat, the Bayon, Preah khan, and Ta Prohm, exemplars of Khmer architecture, are closely linked to their geographical context as well as being imbued with symbolic significance.

The inhabitants venerate the temple deities and organize ceremonies and rituals in their honor, involving prayers, traditional music, and dance.

A male and female eagle tend to stay together all their lives, building nests every year in the same place.

It was known to the ancient Romans, who named it after their god Jupiter, for causing lightning strikes on Earth.

Often the picture will change when the user moves their head, they may be able to "walk" through this virtual space.

The player wants to submerse themselves in their game and feel physically a part of it.

It allows them to have much more of a hands-on and immersive experience in their learning.

The family were wealthy but, remembering the challenges of the Great depression, they encouraged their children to work hard and take nothing for granted.

Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1976 when he formed a contract with Mits (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) to develop a basic operating system for their new microcomputers.

It is estimated Gates and his wife Melinda have given away $28 billion via their charitable foundation - including $8 billion to improve global health.

Further to the south, people make their wontons with egg wrappers and fill them with a combination of pork and shrimp, while in Cantonese cuisine, wontons are often served as an appetizer, deep fried and smothered in sweet and sour sauce.

The Pilgrim fathers and early settlers brought their pie recipes with them to America, adapting to the ingredients and techniques available to them in the New World.

Their first pies were based on berries and fruits pointed out to them by the Native North Americans.

The Asian investment boom in the 1980s and 1990s led many multinational corporations to locate their regional headquarters in Bangkok.

They have few sweat glands so they wisely tend to conserve their energy by resting during the day and become more active at night when it is cooler.

Lions roar to communicate their position to other prides.

Lions communicate through a range of behaviours and their expressive movements are very highly developed.

Their vocalisations also vary in intensity and pitch.

Most of us use their website or app on a daily basis, whether it's for going from video to video until you end up watching conspiracy theories, or just to entertain ourselves with cute cat videos.

When they played their first prank, they turned the website upside down and Rickrolled everyone.

Antwerp was also a major trading city, and when its people moved to Amsterdam, they took their trading networks with them.

Giraffes eat leaves from tall trees and sometimes fruit, which they can reach because of their long legs and long necks.

Their diet is made up primarily of smaller antelopes including springbok, steenbok, Thomson's gazelle, impalas, and duiker.

Female cheetahs are solitary, living alone or with their young.

Historically, cheetahs have been hunted for their fur, but today some of the biggest threats to their survival are loss of habitat, and competition for resources.

Cheetahs require large areas of land for survival, so increased human settlements and road construction in their habitat puts them at risk.

When players are playing a badminton match, their Wilson racquets are not allowed to make contact with the net.

The phrase "rule of thumb" derives from the fact that brewers would use their thumb to determine if the liquid was at ideal temperature to add yeast.

Vodka's popularity in Russia was due to the fact it would not freeze during their cold winters.

While Twitter definitely allows you to "stalk" friends and celebrities by scrolling through their posts and seeing what they've been talking about, it could have been a completely different brand had the name "FriendStalker" won in the end.

Over one billion people rely on seafood as their primary source of animal protein.

Homeowners who want to keep the costs of their power bill down shouldn't let the fridge door open too much in this case.

People are getting more touched with their smartphones than the e-reader device.

They prefer their smartphones to read more than the e-reader.

So, the viability of smartphones and tablets as an e-reader is more encouraged by the people because they search for books to read on their smart devices.

In the 1860s, when France laid their first steps in Vietnam to start their invasion, the bread made from wheat flour also arrived in Vietnam.

These birds first lived within forests and rainforests, an environment which still remains their most comfortable and natural habitat.

One of the main differences between peacocks and peahens is their size.

Although they vary in size, males are often as much as twice the size of their female counterparts.

A common feature of all peafowl are the bare patches of skin which can be found around their eyes.

All the species of peafowl have crests are the top of their heads, however, the design and color can vary across the different species and between different sexes.

Although many people get a chill through their spine at the very mention of the word pickles, Koreans have found a way to make fermented pickled vegetables interesting, tasty and titillating.

A classic starter or a side dish to any Korean meal, these spicy, salty, sweet and sour vegetables known as kimchi start their way sliced, tied in bundles.

A staple of any Korean meal, the dish is so beloved that the locals even shout "kimchi!" when their picture is taken, in the same manner that Americans shout "cheese!".

The company also educates taxi drivers on using the smartphone and their mobile app.

With their eyes placed wide apart they can easily see behind them.

For the unclaimed dead, a city poet is hired to find out as much as possible about the person, and they then write up a poem about them and recite it at their funeral.

Many of the houses have smaller windows at their top, which gives the optical illusion of the house being taller - which acted as a status symbol of wealth back in the day.

For those eagle-eyed observers, you will also notice how many of the thin canal-front houses have hooks at their tops.

People make their green tea differently.

Some measure out two grams of tea and add it to their cup, which contains 100 ml of hot water.

Many companies sell shares of stock, and they depend on the money they get for these shares of stock to pay their bills.

Tigers vary in size depending on their subspecies.

Legend states that gods sent dragons, who dropped jewels and jade from their mouths into the bay, creating the islands.

Many of the islands are untouched due to their steep edges and heights which make it too dangerous to explore.

Many are open to visitors but a number of others are not in an attempt to preserve their integrity.

Andes Candies were called "Andy's Candies," after creator George Andrew Kanelos but it was changed after men didn't want to buy their partners chocolates with another man's name.

A 2004 London study found that 70% of people would give their passwords for a chocolate bar.

The ancient Romans named it after their goddess Venus.

They are easily identified by the presence of a shell, from which their head and limbs protrude.

Their life span is shorter than that of the tortoise with an average of 20 to 40 years and a maximum of 86 years.

Their life span is longer than that of the turtle with an average of 80 to 150 years and a maximum of 188 years.

Turtles and tortoises are both kept as pets, but can be difficult to care for because of their long life span.

The doughnuts get their name from Hanson Gregory, who "put hazelnuts or walnuts in the center, where the dough might not cook through".

Reptiles are cold blooded animals that raise their body temperature by lying in the sun or lower it by crawling into the shade.

Their body temperature changes to the temperature of its surroundings.

Snakes smell with their tongue.

Snakes shed their skin a number of times a year in a process that usually lasts a few days.

Snakes have flexible jaws which allow them to eat prey bigger than their head!

Certainly not a country most people will visit during their lifetime, but for those in search of something different, it's a great choice.

Every restaurant had their version.

After close to 70 years into the game, the brand is as relevant as ever with the addition of influential taste makers such as Kanye West and Pharrell Williams to their stable.

While it is still in direct competition its arch-rival Nike, Adidas has managed to garner much attention to the brand with new and improved designs from world renowned designer Jeremy Scott, and the introduction of new ground-breaking technology such as their Ultra Boost line of products.

As a matter of fact, anyone who dared go to the park wearing Nikes or Puma ran the risk of getting their shoes snatched and hung on the park's "tree of shame" where countless pairs of off brand sneakers could be found.

The iconic rap group Run DMC received their endorsement deal after they performed in New York's Madison Square Garden.

While performing their hit "My Adidas" the group told attendees to take one of their Adidas shoe and hold it in the air.

Jeremy Lin held the record of the high points scored in their first 3 games.