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From mid-September to mid-October of 2020, I tweeted a fact about every country in the world on my Twitter account, @FactBuffet.

Why did I do it? Well, partly due to COVID-related boredom but also a burning desire to spread positive information about the world during a time when people are so isolated from (and even disliking towards) other countries. It turns out that every country in the world has interesting and admirable tidbits.

Here are 50 of the facts I tweeted. Prepare to have your minds blown and to add a couple of items to your Bucket List.

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    Dave P
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    well yeah, when you have experience you know how to do things better, look at South Korea and Taiwan, they had SARS years ago, so they knew how to deal with this one. Death Tolls leads to learning how to prevent it again. The issue is when you havent faced it before, how you deal with it, especially given different political, infrastructure, geography, etc from different countries that makes it hard to take the plans of one and replicate it in another.

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    Catlady6000
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunately, these extremely busy women are still expected to take on the full load of a stay at home wife and mother. Socially, husbands are expected to not help, looked down on if they do, and often, it is looked down on to hire servants. At least it was like this a few years ago. These women are powerhouses with the loads they are carrying.

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    Zophra
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I NEED this soap. I will eat it if necessary. I am a mosquito magnet.

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    3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Prague Astronomical Clock built in 1410. 3rd oldest clock in the world, and the oldest still operating clock.

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    Toto's Servant
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The holes were already dug and they didn't water, but still hugely impressive!

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    Dave P
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Israel still uses a system where each party has a letter of the hebrew alphabet as their symbol, you take one card with the party you wants letter, put it in a envelope, seal it, and then place then you leave the privacy room and go to the room with the box where you put the envelope inside while a poll watcher sees. Was done because many of so many Jewish refugees from so many countries arriving in 1949 and just before, that they needed a way to make voting simple. They still use it.

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    Daria B
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe shortest, but not the tightest. That honour belongs to Split with Pusti me da prođem Street. ♡

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    C.S. E.
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Because they didn't think it important enough to state what it was for, it was the Nobel Peace Prize. It was awarded jointly with Denis Mukwege for "their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is quite inconvenient to find you don't have any cash on you when you're mountaineering.

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    Julie Daly
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    In Sofia Bulgaria, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews can all pray in their respective places of worship just across the street from one another.

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    mph seti
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think the world would be a better place if more politicians were scientists instead of lawyers...Or reality TV "stars"...

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    Mary Rose Kent
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Growing up my favorite food was strawberries, but at some point in my adult life raspberries snuck up to number one. Truth be told, I’m keen on most fruits.

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    Jacqueline Kapiteijn
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    3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    We went to the butterfly garden. Our stop-over was too short to visit this :-(.

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    Gogubaci
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    living somewhere where winter skills are not just for sport totally helps :)

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    Kendra Miller
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I watched a documentary on this a long time ago. It was built in a really windy place, Dubai I believe. The building is shaped to help guide wind towards the turbines. And the bridges are designed to expand and contract since the two buildings will shake and shift a little differently than one another in high winds.

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    WilvanderHeijden
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Here, am I sitting in my tin coin, Far above the world, Planet Earth is blue.

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    Orillion
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It was called the Tree of Ténéré. In 1973 it was hit by a drunk truck driver. Goes to prove that you will ALWAYS find something to hit when driving drunk.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Considering that Peru is the one to give us this gem of stews, I heartily agree they should study their 2000-4000 heirloom varieties.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Makes sense in a country where income from witchcraft, sorcery and fortune telling is taxed. Fun fact: Fortune tellers didn't see it coming back in 2011.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Turkmenistan"s president is a president for life and loves weird architecture. He is also brutally immature and paranoid

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    Péter Rózsahegyi
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Guys, that's not a graveyard. They are not even ships. These are boats of fishermen of Nouadhibou, Mauritania. boats-5ff3...beb6c6.jpg boats-5ff3906beb6c6.jpg

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Latvia has huge sandy beaches that make it the perfect summer holiday destination.

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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It's also a dictatorship with a secret police known from sending death squads after refugees, pursuing them as far as Europe.

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