In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
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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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Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.
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Water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since 1991.
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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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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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The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making their own country with no copyright laws.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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