Love it or loathe it, but you can’t ignore the Pokemon Go game. The smartphone app has already broke several records to be the most successful game in the US. Due to its popularity, the struggling gaming company Nintendo, knows for its ill-fated Wi U has seen incredible surge in its valuation. If all that wasn’t enough, the number of active Pokemon Go users in the US have already surpassed Twitter users. If you think that all of this is crazy, here’s a bunch of Pokemon facts you probably did not know about:

We all know video game currency. In “freemium” mobile games, you can make up for the skills by spending these virtual gold coins. This case is different though. Here, coins based on stupid video game characters, are legally used for transaction. Welcome to Niue, an island country in the South Pacific Ocean that minted Pokemon coins in early 2000. To be precise, the $1 and $10 coins were based on Pokemon characters. No points for guessing that these coins are sought after by the Pikachu gang fans around the world.

Condoms

For obvious reasons, I wasn’t quite sure about the authenticity of this one. Any reasonable person would wonder why would anyone mass produce such product. However, a stroll down the dark corners of the Internet and it turned out to be an actual product. Well, Japan, the country of the rising Sun never fails to surprise me. You can choose to view the detailed images here.

Snow Cone Maker

Japanese people like ice, and they also love Pokemon. As you would have guessed, the mix-up is inevitable. Without further ado, meet the Pokemon ice cone maker. If you think that a Pikachu puking ice would not be a classy sight, worry not. The elegant people of Japan have designed it in such a way that it “subtly” dispenses ice from the other end.

Pokemon Seaweed

Now that you have a popsicle made of ice pooped by Pikachu, how about starting your dinner with some Pokemon soup? ‘Marumiya Pokemon Seaweed Soup Light’ to be precise. When you watch Pokemon cartoons, play Pokemon games, what’s wrong eating those small monsters? For those not in the know, that’s quite normal in the Pokemon universe. Although the product does not look appetizing, I like the idea of seeing all those weird animals in boiling hot soup.

Aircrafts

Not sure, if the gig is still on, but ANA (All Nippon Airways) had at least a couple of Pokemon branded Jumbo Jets (Boing 747-400). That’s way before the insane popularity of the mobile-friendly Pokemon Go game though. These flights flew back in 1998, on domestic routes. And yes, the stewardesses had to don a weird outfit.

The Solar Impulse 2 was on Monday approaching the end of its epic bid to become the first sun-powered airplane to circle the globe without a drop of fuel to promote renewable energy.When the experimental aircraft touches down in Abu Dhabi in the early hours of Tuesday it will cap a remarkable 42,000-km journey across four continents, two oceans and three seas.

With Swiss explorer and project director Bertrand Piccard in the cockpit, the plane is due to land at Al-Bateen Executive Airport in the UAE capital where it launched its tour on March 9, 2015.By 1300 GMT on Monday, Solar Impulse 2 had travelled more than 2,200 km in nearly 38 hours on its final leg, flying over Qatar’s northern tip after crossing the vast Saudi desert.

“Thanks to our lovely #sun, #Si2’s batteries are fully charged,” the Solar Impulse team said on Twitter.“After a turbulent night from extreme high temperatures, the sun rose above a desert of sand dunes above #SaudiArabia,” Mr. Piccard tweeted earlier.Dubbed the “paper plane,” the Solar Impulse 2 is circumnavigating the globe in stages, with 58-year-old Piccard and his compatriot Andre Borschberg taking turns at the controls of the single-seat aircraft.

Final leg

It took off from Cairo on its final leg early on Sunday, having previously crossed Asia, North America, Europe and North Africa.Mr. Borschberg, 63, smashed the record for the longest uninterrupted journey in aviation history with the 8,924-km flight between Nagoya, Japan and Hawaii that lasted nearly 118 hours.“#Si2 is both the 1st airplane of unlimited endurance & the only experimental aircraft allowed to fly over cities!” he tweeted on Monday.

No heavier than a car but with the wingspan of a Boeing 747, the four-engine battery-powered aircraft relies on around 17,000 solar cells embedded in its wings.Its broad wings and light weight make it particularly sensitive to turbulence.The plane has clocked an average speed of 80 km per hour.