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• [Countries fact 1] Squonk is a mythological creature from Pennsylvania that is so ugly that it cries constantly from loneliness and shame, dissolving in a puddle of its own tears when cornered.

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• [Countries fact 2] 29% of California’s air pollution is from China.

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• [Countries fact 3] During the Cold War, Nikita Khrushchev said to Mao Zedong that "Berlin is the testicles of the West. Every time I want to make the West scream, I squeeze on Berlin."

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• [Countries fact 4] 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 5] During World War 2, British soldiers got a ration of three sheets of toilet paper a day. Americans got 22.

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• [Countries fact 6] Oleg Gordievsky was a KGB/MI6 double agent. If he required MI6 rescue, he was to stand on a street corner in Moscow at 7:30 pm on a Tuesday holding a Safeway bag, wearing a grey cap. MI6 would acknowledge by walking past him eating a chocolate bar. MI6 monitored this street corner for 10 years.

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• [Countries fact 7] "Fishing is the most dangerous occupation in America (128.9 deaths per 100,000 people), compared to logging (115.7), the military (82, the leading cause being "accident"), flying (72.4), structural iron and steel working (46.4), mining (35) and policing (11.1). The average worker's fatality rate is 3.6."

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• [Countries fact 8] Before the Mayflower, Squanto was kidnapped, sold into slavery in Spain, and escaped back to North America, only to find his entire tribe wiped out from disease. The site he later helped the Pilgrams settle at was the summer village of his tribe, Plymoth Rock.

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• [Countries fact 9] Volkswagen was sued by Czechoslovakian car maker Tatra before World War 2 because the original Beetle was so similar to the Tatra T97. After Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938 the lawsuit was canceled by the Nazis.

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• [Countries fact 10] During the 1938 FIFA World Cup, the Brazilian team was so sure of winning the semi-final match against Italy that they requisitioned the only plane to Paris on the day after the match. After losing to Italy, they refused to sell them the tickets, and the Italian team had to travel from Marseilles to Paris by train.

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