Here's some Hotmail trivia to impress your friends:

• Hotmail is used in more than 220 countries and territories – more than the number recognized by the United Nations.
• If MSN Hotmail’s 190M active accounts were citizens of a single country, it would be the world’s 5th largest country. 

No. 5, MSN Hotmail, 190mm
No. 6, Brazil 184mm
No. 7, Pakistan, 159mm
No. 8, Russia, 144mm
No. 9, Bangladesh, 141mm

• If connected hand-to-hand, the 190 million MSN Hotmail members would circle the Earth at the equator over five and a half times. 
• MSN Hotmail e-mail service members number more than the combined population of the world’s 20 largest cities.
• If all MSN Hotmail members were standing in single file, they would line the length of the Great Wall of China or the Nile River (the longest river in the world) over 17 times.
• The MSN Hotmail user base has grown more than 18 times since January 1998, which is more than the world population has grown in the last fifty years.
• Since 1997, MSN® Hotmail® has grown nearly 20 times from 10 million to 190 million subscribers.
• In 2001 and 2003 MSN Hotmail was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s largest free Web-based e-mail service provider.