- India is the world's largest consumer of gold.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Russia is the world's largest country with an area of 17,075,400 square kilometers.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - An acre of trees can remove about 13 tons of dust and gases every year from the surrounding environment.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The sun shrinks five feet every hour.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - One percent of Greenland's population lives in one single apartment building, named Blok P.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Finland is also known as "the land of of the thousand lakes," because of the over 188,000 lakes found in this country.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - There are over 2,000 different species of cactuses.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - In approximately 18 months, the papaya tree can grow to be 20 feet tall.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Stalks of sugar cane can reach up to 30 feet.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Even though the rose does not bear any fruit, the rose hips have more Vitamin C than most vegetables and fruits.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - Devon, England has about 33,000 miles of hedgerows, more hedgerows than any other country.
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(Added: Thu Oct 31 2002) - The reason why the Canadian Arctic is called the "Land of the Midnight Sun" is because during the summer many communities have light 24 hours of the day. Many people have to cover their windows with tin foil to keep the light out when they sleep.
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(Added: Thu Sep 21 2006) - Toronto was the first city in the world with a computerized traffic signal system.
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