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California has more people than all of Canada.

True! Canada: 35.85 million. California: 39.14 million. (According to data from 2015.)

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Thailand has a festival to appreciate their monkeys

True! Every last Sunday of November, this festival in Lopburi celebrates the Monkeys in a Monkey Buffet Festival.

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Wales has a town with 57 letters in its name

True! It's "Llanfairpwll-gwyngyllgogerychwyrndrob-wllllantysiliogogogoch”.

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There Are 7,000+ Islands in the Philippines

True! The Archipelago of the Philippines is made up of 7,641 islands.

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Coca Cola doesn't exist in every country in the world

True! It doesn't exist in North Korea since 1950 and Cuba since 1962.

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There are no ATMs in Antarctica

False! There are only two.

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The hottest temperature was recorded in the Sahara Desert.

False! In 1913, the World Meteorological Organisation recorded a ground temperature of 56.7°C in California's Death Valley.

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Iceland doesn’t have mosquitos

True!Although there are more than 3,000 types of mosquitoes in the world, Iceland doesn’t have any at all

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Hurricanes Hit China More Than Any Other Nation

True! China has been hit by more than 172 hurricanes on its mainland since 1970.

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Fortune cookies are a Chinese tradition

False! Fortune cookies were originally the invention of Japanese-Americans before being widely adopted by Chinese culture.

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Scotland chose the unicorn as its national animal.

True! In Celtic mythology, the fictional creature is connected with both chivalry and dominance as well as purity and innocence.

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The Great Wall of China can be seen from space

False! “after numerous missions to space, by astronauts from countries all over the world, nobody could see the wall.”

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Greece Has More Than 200 Islands

True! The number of islands in the country is between 1,200 and 6,000

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