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India has a bill of rights for cows.

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Around 5,000 languages are currently spoken in the world (an exact count is hard to give because even linguists don't always agree as to whether two languages are different or if one is a dialect of the other). About 4% of them are spoken by 96% of Earth's population.

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The shortest national anthem is the Japanese national anthem, which is only four lines long. The longest is the Greek national anthem, which is 158 verses long.

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Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia are building a 27-hole golf course on the border between the three countries, with nine holes in each country.

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Much of the area proposed for the golf course is currently a minefield.

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The country of Indonesia comprises over 17,000 islands.

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The official president of North Korea is still Kim Il-Sung, even though he died in 1994.

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India is the world's second most populous country, with a population of more than 1,000,000,000. The world's third most populous country, the United States, has a population less than 30% of that of India.

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The Falkland Islands have a human population of around 2,000 but a sheep population of 700,000, making 350 sheep for each person.

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Everyone in Iceland is literate. Every Icelander must graduate from school in order to get a job, and he has to be able to speak three languages. (The "native" language, namely Icelandic - which is the ancient language of the sagas - is spoken in no other country.)

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England and Portugal have never been at war with each other. It is probably the longest unbroken peace (Portugal was created over 850 years ago) between any two nations in the world.

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The year 2006 is the year 95 in Taiwan.

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In China it is very respectful to make as much noise as possible when drinking your soup

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At funerals Chinese people sometimes burn paper-money so that the dead person will be rich in the after-life.

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The worlds average school year is 200 days per year. In the US, it is 180 days; in Sweden 170 days, in Japan it is 243 days.

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At any given time about 0.7% of the worlds population are estimated to be drunk.

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Until quite recently, most Japanese children used to celebrate their birthdays on first of January, regardless of which day of the year they were born on.

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Approximately 100,000 people get married in Las Vegas each year.

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Some people in China work as apologizers.

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An average wedding feast in Yemen will lasts 21 days.

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Sri Lanka has lowest divorce rate in the world - and the highest rate of female suicide.

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There are more chickens than people in the world.

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In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies.

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About 50% of the residents in India are under 25 years old.

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The two most common last names in Japan is Sato and Suzuki.