Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
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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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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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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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Japan's capital Tokyo means "Eastern Capital".
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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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Korea's capital Seoul means "Capital".
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