Thursday, March 03, 2005

Fascinating facts

(not a meme. promise.)
As brought to you by the CIA World Factbook:

  • the US as the only world superpower - is that right?
  • only 2 countries are doubly landlocked (Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan). Hell, I didn't even know what that meant until now, never mind that there are real-world examples of the type!
  • arable land: 10.73% - since total land area is only 29.2% of the Earth's surface, this means we are only using 3.1% of the Earth's surface to feed (at last estimate) 6.38 billion people. Yikes!
  • total population literacy(age 15 and over can read and write): 77% - I'm impressed. Seriously. I'd have expected a much lower figure
  • Economy overview - Now this is fascinating reading. The USA government's own intelligence agency believes that "central government is losing decision-making powers to international bodies". I wonder if the chap who wrote that is still 'serving his nation'.
  • World imports and exports figures - Proof! Proof, I tells ya! They've been trying to cover up the existence of Roswell and extra-terrestrial life for decades, and here the evidence sits in plain sight. To whom does the world export, I ask? From whom do we import as a planet? Hm?

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