In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The starting price was $0.01 AUD and managed to reach $3000 before eBay closed the auction.
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China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
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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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Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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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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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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