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Israel
  • The glue on Israeli stamps are kosher
  • Israel has the highest number of companies listed on the U.S. Stock exchange after the U.S and Canada
  • The most popular product in Israel is the soup nut
  • Israeli bank notes have brail on them
  • Israel has more in-vitro fertilization per capita than anywhere else in the world
  • The two most common family names are Cohan and Levi
  • Jerusalem has one of the highest rated night clubs in the world
  • 1/3 of Israelis are volunteers

Japan
  • 10% of all the fish caught in the world are sold in Japan
  • An average Japanese eats her/his own body weight in seafood a year

war
  • The longest civil war is fought in Myanmar which has been in strife since 1948 - present
  • The longest ongoing war (not civil) is between Isreal and Palastine which started in 1947
  • The longest war in history goes to the incorrectly named 100-year-war between Britain and Frace which went on for 116 years
  • The shortest war took place in 1896 when Zanzibar surrendered to Britain after 38 minutes
  • Chevy Chase was a battle that took place on the english-Scottish border in 1388
  • Global spending on defence total more than $700 billion. Global spending on education is less than $100 billion

Internal Revenue, IRS
  • The Internal Revenue Service audits 87% of women who claim breast implants as tax deductions

wealth
  • The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations

money
  • Scientists in Dublin have found traces of cocaine on 100% of the Irish banknotes they tested
  • If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar
  • The numbers ‘172′ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial
  • On the old Canadian 2 dollar bill,the flag flying over the Parliament Building is NOT an American flag.Thanx Doug B. and Dwain

debt
  • Total UK personal debt has exceeded £1 ¼ trillion and at the end of November 2006 it stood at £1,278bn

monopoly
  • More Monopoly is printed yearly than real money throughout the United States treasury

Jordan, Michael
  • Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined
  • Michael Jordan was initially reknown for his baseball skills
  • At first, Jordan failed to make the varsity basketball team at his Wilmington’s Laney High school
  • Michael grew 4 inches (11 cm) in 1 year to make the varsity squad
  • Michael Jordan retired from basketball twice
  • Jordan scored 32,292 in his basketball career
  • He appeared in the 2004 movie Supersize Me
  • He has a tattoo of the Greek letter ‘Omega’ over his heart, representing Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated, of which he is a member

gold
  • If all the gold in the ocean were mined, every person on Earth would get about 20 kgs of gold each. Thanx clem