The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand around.
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The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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The flag of the Philippines is flown with the red stripe up in times of war and blue stripe up in times of peace.
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If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
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A 2012 study in eastern Germany was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 who believed in God.
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Argentina's capital Buenos Aires means "Good air".
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More books are written, published and sold per person per year in Iceland than anywhere else on the planet. One in ten Icelanders will become a published author in their lifetime.
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