ANN: In 1896, the entire country was sold to the US for $20million. Which worked out about a dollar a head.
The national sport is basketball. But the average height is 5’3 1/2.”
Boiled duck foetuses are popular snacks, although they are usually eaten in the dark.
On 29 November 2007, a Senator, a Brigadier General and a former Vice President attempted to stage a military coup by occupying a five star hotel.
In the capital, more than 10,000 families live in the town cemetery.
Large parts of the country were plunged into darkness when the equivalent of 50 truckloads of jellyfish were sucked into the seawater intake of a large power station.
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