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Interesting Facts - Page 230
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Malé, the capital of the Maldives, has a population of over 200,000 on a tiny atoll just 8.3 square kilometers in size and less than 2.4 meters above sea level.
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In the Earth's crust, uranium is more abundant than tin.
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The indigenous people living near San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina have evolved a resistance to arsenic poisoning due to generations of living in an area with toxic drinking water.
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The Kolyma Highway was built in the Russian Far East starting in the 1930s, using forced labor from Soviet gulags. Nobody knows how many people died building it, but a typical estimate is 125,000. As the ground in that area is permafrost, it is rumored that the corpses of the dead workers were buried under the road itself. For that reason, it is nicknamed the "Road of Bones".
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Massachusetts had an official religion until 1833.
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