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• [Countries fact 1] German Chocolate Cake is named after its creator, Sam German, and in fact, has nothing to do with Germany.

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• [Countries fact 2] The Wild Boar is one of America's most problematic invasive species and an estimated 5-6 million pigs live across 35 states. They are continuing to spread.

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• [Countries fact 3] Saudi Arabia imports sand and camels from Australia.

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• [Countries fact 4] American muffins are actually individual “quickbreads” or oil cakes (like zucchini bread), making them essentially cupcakes. English muffins are griddled flatbreads, which is why they are chemically and nutritionally more similar to pita or pizza than to American muffins.

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• [Countries fact 5] There is a species of sheep named North Ronaldsay sheep on the island of North Ronaldsay in Scotland that survives entirely on seaweed. A wall was built around the island to protect crops from sheep grazing, limiting them to the shoreline where they have adapted to survive on seaweed.

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• [Countries fact 6] Due to widespread videogame addiction, the Korean government has banned anyone under the age of 16 from playing online games between midnight and 6 am.

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• [Countries fact 7] Planned obsolescence is illegal in France. It is a crime to intentionally shorten the lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. In early 2018, French authorities used this law to investigate reports that Apple deliberately slowed down older iPhones via software updates.

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• [Countries fact 8] Sweden imports more live crawfish from the US than any other country, and 90% of all crawfish produced in the US is grown in Louisiana.

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• [Countries fact 9] Authentic Mongolian cuisine is mutton, mutton, and more mutton. (A "Mongolian barbecue" is neither Mongolian nor BBQ.) It is so monotonous that one travel author wrote: "in 33 years of international travel [Mongolia] has without question the most pitiful food of any country I have visited."

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• [Countries fact 10] In 1973, Syria had such a powerful air defense system, it almost destroyed the Israeli air force in just 18 days. In 1982 the rebuilt Israeli air force launched the largest air battle since the Korean war, destroying nearly the entire Syrian air defense and air force in under 2 hours.

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