The Eiffel tower was the world's largest structure for 40 years

True - see here

The Eiffel tower used 2.5 million rivets

True - see here

There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

True - see here

Some German toilets are specially designed with a little shelf that allows you to inspect your poop before flushing it away.

True - see here

Cheddar cheese was named after the city Cheddar in England.

True apart from it is a village - see here

The average age gap between coupled men and women is much smaller in countries with more gender equality.

If every ice sheet and glacier on Earth melted, global sea levels would rise by 260 feet—London and L.A. would be underwater.

Eskimos use refrigerators to stop their food from freezing.

Not true - fridges can not heat

There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach in the world.

True - see here

North Korea will be turning its clocks back half an hour and establishing its own timezone, just to spite Japan and South Korea.

True - see here

In the UK, you can never be more than 70.2 miles away from the sea.