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Interesting Facts - Page 235
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During WWI, the British Army created special battalions of "Bantam" soldiers who were too short to meet the normal height minimum of 5'3" tall. Sadly they were mostly wiped out during the Battles of the Somme and the Cambrai.
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In the early 1800s, nearly 15% of people in Wales had the last name Jones. Today, it's "only" about 5.75%.
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If UN population estimates are accurate, then more babies are born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo than in the United States.
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Stalin's daughter defected to the U.S. in 1967, converted to Catholicism, and moved to rural Wisconsin where she died in relative obscurity in 2011.
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Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur were founded by Chinese people. Bangkok was majority Chinese as late as the 1950s.
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(Hoses have the Male and Female coupling while the electrical cables, more specifically extention cords, have the end that plugs into the wall has the male and the one that runs away as the female, this is for obvious reasons that may include parts of the body that are specific to either a male or a female)
given how often QM criticizes UN population data's accuracy i'm surprised this fact made it in here
Seriously, the group doing the satellite studies doesn't publish the raw numbers. You can, in theory, process the files yourself in some complicated way if you want to dig deeper. Not worth it for me.