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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In France, there's a place called Y.
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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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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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Thailand's capital Bangkok means "city of angels".
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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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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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