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« on: October 08, 2009, 10:27:08 PM »

More than half of the coastline of the entire United States is in Alaska.

Brazil got it's name from the nut, not the other way around.

Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Canada is an Indian word, meaning "Big Village".

Next to Warsaw, Chicago has the largest population of Polish people in the world.

Damascus, Syria, was flourishing a couple of thousand years before Rome was founded in 753 BC, making it
the oldest continuously inhabited city in existence.

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

There are no natural lakes in the state of Ohio, every one is man made.

The first city to reach a population of 1 million people was Rome, italy in 133 BC
There is a city called Rome on every continent.

Siberia contains more than 25% of the world's forests.

Spain literally means, "the land of rabbits".

.........I have always said that we should learn something new every day.
Unfortunately, some of us are at that age where what we learn today, we forget tomorrow.  yes Grin

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« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2009, 10:45:52 AM »

Oslo, Norway is located north of Anchorage, Alaska

The largest population of Norwegians live in the USA.

Only 4% of Norway has land that can support crops. Most of it is developed.
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