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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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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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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Thailand's capital Bangkok means "city of angels".
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Singapore means "Lion city".
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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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