Geography and Space

Bizarre Fact #131:
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China's largest city is Shanghai.

Bizarre Fact #132:
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Coca Cola was founded by Joseph A. Biedenharn in Vicksburg.

Bizarre Fact #133:
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Despite a population of over a billion, China has only about 200 family names.

Bizarre Fact #134:
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Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.

Bizarre Fact #135:
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Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.

Bizarre Fact #136:
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Ellis Island opened to begin the processing of what would amount to more than 20 million immigrants to the United States in 1892. The immigration center was also used as a deportation station, and later, a Coast Guard Station, and then, a national park. Ellis Island is now a museum.

Bizarre Fact #137:
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England is smaller than New England.

Bizarre Fact #138:
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Female aristocrats on the island of Portugese Timor in Malaya, indicate their status by notching their ears.

Bizarre Fact #139:
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Football great Walter Peyton was from Columbia.

Bizarre Fact #140:
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Forty six percent of the world's water is in the Pacific Ocean. The Atlantic has 23.9 percent; the Indian, 20.3; the Arctic, 3.7 percent.