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Nigeria
  • Nigeria is the world’s largest producer of oil
  • The amount of gas burned off by the oil companies just to overcome “over pressure” during oil production in Nigeria is more than enough to power the whole continent of Africa (but it is cheaper to burn it than to produce energy from it, and they make so much money from oil that they do not care about the gas produced)

US debt
  • If the US debt was piled up in dollar notes, they would overshadow a skyscraper twice the height of the empire state building
  • To pay off the US debt of $12 trillion dollars, every person in America will need to come up with $40,000
  • Increasing the debt ceiling to 14.3 trillion means another $6000 from every person
  • In 1791, The US owed $75 million dollars. Today, that would only take them 1 hour to accure

bank
  • In the early days, temples were used as banks and the first loans were taken out against rice
  • Just before the US started bombing Baghdad, nearly $1 billion dollars was stolen from the Central Bank of Iraq and is now the largest bank robbery in history
  • The Bank of America on Disneyland’s Main Street was in fact a functioning bank (for Cast Members) until the late ’70′s. It was also  the only bank in America that was open on Sunday.
  • The Bank of America was originally called The Bank of Italy
  • In 2010, the Bank of America was the 3rd largest company in the world
  • In 2007, the top five hold $6,775,079,249,000.00 in assets. That’s six trillion dollars!
  • In Papua New Guinea, people can enter a bank just wearing a penis sheath (koteka)

salt
  • Roman soldiers were once paid in salt coins
  • The word ‘salary’ actually comes from the root word of salt
  • The word ‘salad’ also originated from the word salt. Thats an ironic fact
  • The bible refers to salt 30 times
  • In 1933,the Dalai Lama was burried atop a bed of salt

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


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