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International Shame European country of Moldova each year, the Chad live, on average, to the age of 49 years and
average person consumes 17.4 litres of pure 9 months. In the tiny wealthy European nation
Claim To Fame alcohol each year. of Monaco, the average lifespan is 89. []

LEAST LITERATE:
From the Mind of Executive Producer, Rob
One of the newest countries on earth,
McConnell,
HIGHEST MURDER RATE: South Sudan (established in 2011), has the
The Central American nation of fewest literate adults. Only about 27 percent of
Honduras experience 90.4 (reported) murders the men and women there can read. THE FACT*OID GAME
per 100,000 people each year. In the United
States, it’s just below 5 per 100,000. MOST CANCEROUS: - Donnie Dunagan voiced Bambi in Bambi as
Australia, a land of much sunshine, leads a boy and grew up to become the U.S.
HIGHEST INCOME TAX: the world in cancer rates. Each year, 468 out of Marine’s youngest-ever drill instructor.
Belgium has a progressive tax, meaning 100,000 residents are diagnosed with cancer - In zero gravity, candle flames are round and
people who earn more pay more. Its top rate is (primarily skin cancer). The United States if 5th burn blue.
50%, plus all employees pay a 13 percent social highest with 352, Canada is 11th with 334, and - Watching horror movies increases the
security tax. That works out to be an average of Israel ranks 50th with 233 per 100,000. The amount of a clotting protein in your
41 percent of a paycheck going to the lowest cancer rates can be found in Syria, bloodstream.
government. However, housing and groceries in Bhutan and Nepal, at approximately 90 cases - Soap bubbles keep the bathwater warmer
Belgium are among the least expensive in the per 100,000 residents. for longer.
developed world, and the government pays for - There’s a variety of lemon called the
many social services, including health care. MOST SMOKERS: baboon.
Belgians have the lowest rate of out-of-pocket Per capita, the tiny mountainous nation - The pointy tip of your elbow is called an
health care costs in Western Europe. of Andorra, which sits between Spain and olecranon.
France, smokes the most. Each year, the average - Each second, your fingernails grow about
MOST POLLUTED AIR: Andorran purchases 6,398 cigarettes. That’s just one nanometer longer.
India’s sky is the dirtiest in the world. under a pack a day for every man, woman, and - After the military, Disneyland is America’s
According to a study by the environmental child largest buyer of explosives for their nightly
crusaders at Greenpeace, seven of the ten cities fireworks shows.
with the world’s worst air quality (and 22 of the MOST STRESSED: - The bookstore chain Borders started a
30 most polluted cities) are in India. According to a Bloomberg study that dating site for book lovers in the UK called
factored in murder rates, GDP, income Happily Ever After. Both businesses are now
POOREST COUNTRY: inequality, unemployment, and life expectancy, defunct.
The Central African Republic. It’s got the most beleaguered in the world is Nigeria, - Ryan Gosling turned down a chance to
the lowest GDP in the world, with a capita with a score of 70.1. Number 2: South Africa audition for the Backstreet Boys.
income of $700 per person. with a score of 7.0. - It takes more than 2,500 gallons of water to
make a single pair of blue jeans.
WORST INFLATION: HIGHEST OBESITY RATE: - There are about 13 million more cats in the
After political turmoil destabilized the The Pacific Ocean island nation of U.S. than there are dogs.
country in 2018, Venezuela’s rate of inflation Nauru is small, but its people are large. Just over - A.A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh) had H.G.
passed 1 million percent by the end of the year. 60 percent of the population is considered obese. Wells (War of the Worlds) for a teacher and
The International Monetary Fund forecast that According to the Centers for Disease Control played on a cricket team with J.M. Barrie
the nation could reach as high as 10 million nearly 40 percent of Americans are classified as (Peter Pan) and Arthur Conan Doyle
percent by the end of 2020. obese. (Sherlock Holmes).

HEAVIEST DRINKERS: LOWEST LIFE EXPECTANCY: Keep Reading for More Fact*oids!
When you add up the alcohol in all the Due to a poor health care system that
beer, wine, and spirits consumed in the small allows for the spread of disease, the people in