[Places fact 1] The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, which, when adjusted for inflation, is $118 million. Nearly $2.5 million less than what Real Madrid paid for Cristiano Ronaldo.
[Places fact 2] In Algeria, the largest country in Africa and 35th in world population, women make up 70% of the country's lawyers and 60% of its judges, as well as dominating the field of medicine. Increasingly, women are contributing more to household income than men. 60% of university students are women.
[Places fact 3] There exists a space station of the sea, a permanent underwater laboratory (Aquarius) 3.5 miles off of the Florida Keys.
[Places fact 4] The city of Detroit has its own local currency, fully backed by U.S. currency. It is printed in $3 bills and features the Spirit of Detroit over the Detroit Skyline.
[Places fact 5] A Minnesota man named Scott Wagar once sprayed toilet-papering teens on his property, with a squirt gun full of fox urine.
[Places fact 6] In 1999, USA bombed Chinese embassy in Belgrade, killing 3 Chinese journalists. The bombing was blamed on outdated maps, but it was later revealed that the CIA actually possessed up-to-date maps.
[Places fact 7] In Denmark, during the World War 2, border guards would screen homecoming Danes by making them say the name of a dessert called rødgrød med fløde. Due to its difficulty in pronunciation, German infiltrators could not pass the test.
[Places fact 8] In 2009, a man named Tracy Ingle was sentenced to 18 years in prison for felony assault after pointing his gun at officers raiding his home in a no-knock raid. He was shot five times and police didn't find the drugs they were looking for.
[Places fact 9] In 1980, an oil drilling company in Louisiana accidentally drilled into a salt mine, which caused a sinkhole to form in Lake Peigneur. The resultant whirlpool sucked in the drilling platform, eleven barges, many trees and 65 acres of the surrounding terrain.
[Places fact 10] In the Cayman Islands, there is a place called Hell that people aren't allowed in.
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