Fun Facts 28

*fun fact-i took me 3 different attempts to get this up*

Country facts! not the YEE-HAW! kind

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.

203 million dollars is spent on barbed wire each year in the U.S.

Organized crime is estimated to account for 10% of the United States' national (we're special)

The United States consumes 25% of all the world's energy

Washington, D.C. has one lawyer for every 19 residents (well if there weren't so many politicians)

Until 1796, there was a state in the United States called Franklin. Today it's known as Tennessee

Three Mile Island is only 2 1/2 miles long.

There is a town called Paradise and a town called Hell in Michigan (I aspire to visit both)

There are more female than male millionaires in the United States (because women marry rich men, killed the rich man and then take his money and then sometimes repeat the process)

There are 10 towns named Hollywood in the United States (pirates are notoriously uncreative)

The University of Alaska stretches over 4 time zones

The United States produces more tobacco than it does wheat

The Pacific island of Nauru's economy is almost entirely based on bird droppings (that crap is worth something?)

The Canary Islands were not named after a bird called the canary. They were named after a breed of dogs!

Streets in Japan do not have names (i would get so lost so fast)

St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called 'Pigs Eye'

Istanbul, Turkey is the only city in the world located on two continents

India has a Bill of Rights for cows

In the United States, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people

In India, people are legally allowed to marry a dog! (hey, they are more loyal humans)

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8Ben January 22, 2011 at 6:26pm

cows must be really important in india to have a bill of rights
3Rachel January 22, 2011 at 4:41pm

That would be so wierd if someone married a dog?! lol, I wonder if there's anyone who has, or ever would marry a dog.. :P
3Ally January 22, 2011 at 12:14am

Yeah, in India also, it's legal to get married at like 9 years old and have kids too... So the dog one kinda doesn't surprise me.. But the Island based on poop is really weird, haha. What do they do with it?
- 3brittany > 3Ally January 30, 2011 at 8:59pm
  
  legal to get married at the age of nine?! whoaa,
2 leah January 21, 2011 at 2:50pm

Bill of Rights for cows????????????? really?? also i think it would be kinda cool to go to the university of alaska even if it was for only one day cause eventually i would probably get confused.
4Heather January 21, 2011 at 10:54am

Lindsey: U.S. Mexican border.
4Lindsey January 21, 2011 at 10:51am

you have two of these up now.

what do we do with all that barbwire...?

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