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    Brazil has their own version of Miss America. Miss Bumbum Brazil pageant is an annual competition for the best butt in the country.
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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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    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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    Japan's capital Tokyo means "Eastern Capital".
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    France's capital Paris means "the working people".
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    The Mexican state of Yucatán was named so after a misunderstanding when the Spaniards arrived and asked the locals what they called the place. The locals replied "Yucatan" which means "I don’t understand you" in their native tongue.
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    Spain's capital Madrid means "place of abundant water".
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    Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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