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• [Countries fact 1] According to Icelandic folklore, the monstrous Yule Cat will eat you if you don't receive any clothing for Christmas.

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• [Countries fact 2] The American English expression "Okay" (or O.K.) is nearly identical to the expression "Okeh" from the Amerindian Choctaw-Chickasaw language, which first appeared in print a decade earlier and means "it is so and not otherwise."

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• [Countries fact 3] In Japan, houses are considered depreciating assets. Half of all homes are destroyed by the time they are 38 and rebuilt. There are 4 times as many architects and twice as many construction workers per capita as the US. There is no home equity LOC and virtually no home improvement industry.

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• [Countries fact 4] Metro Woman was a short-lived publicity stunt in 2005 intended to gather support for the Washington purple line metro project.

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• [Countries fact 5] Sir Walter Raleigh, English aristocrat and explorer, captured a Portuguese ship for England. The ship was estimated to be worth half the size of England’s national treasury at the time. When the captured ship docked, people from all over England came to loot it.

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• [Countries fact 6] The entire continent of Africa has a smaller GDP than France

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• [Countries fact 7] In Finland, city planners are known to visit parks immediately after the first snowfall, when the existing walking paths are not visible. People naturally choose desire paths, clearly marked by their footprints, which can be then used to guide the routing of new purpose-built paved paths.

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• [Countries fact 8] German nationalists in the 1930s created their own version of physics because real physics was too Jewish.

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• [Countries fact 9] During the Cold War maps distributed in the US utilized distorted map projections to make the USSR and Vietnam seem larger, closer and more "menacing."

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• [Countries fact 10] MDZhB is a Russian ghost radio station that has been broadcasting since 1982. No one claims it but it has continuously produced a buzz punctuated with someone making a short random statement once or twice a week since its inception.

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