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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Korea's capital Seoul means "Capital".
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Spain's capital Madrid means "place of abundant water".
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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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China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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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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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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