- Although Greenland has a national soccer team, it cannot join FIFA because its climate makes maintaining a natural grass field difficult, one of FIFA’s traditional requirements.
- Chile did not legalize divorce until 2004, making it one of the last countries in the Western Hemisphere to do so.
- Istanbul is the only major city in the world that spans two continents, with one side in Europe and the other in Asia.
- There are roughly 200 chickens for every person in Delaware.
- Amman, the capital of Jordan, was known as Philadelphia during the Hellenistic and Roman eras.
- Alaska is about 429 times larger than Rhode Island, yet Rhode Island has a much larger population.
- Neither kangaroos nor emus can easily walk backward. They appear on Australia’s coat of arms as symbols of forward progress.
- A grizzly bear’s bite is powerful enough to crush a bowling ball.
Facts by Sean McVeigh, factologist.
