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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Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur means "Muddy River"
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Afghanistan's capital Kabul means "hump backed".
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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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Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.
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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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Argentina's capital Buenos Aires means "Good air".
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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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