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The bird with the largest wingspan is the Wandering Albatross Diomedea exulans which lives in the southern oceans. Its wings average 2.54 - 3.51 m. The largest recorded wingspan was of a very old male whose wings measured 3.63 m.
Facts in category: Countries
| Canada has no president. Canada's govenment is a Parliamentary democracy (federal constitutional monarchy) whose Monarch is Queen Elizabeth II. Canada has a Prime Minister. |
| The smallest country is Nauru with 21,2 square km. |
| In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender used to yell at themto mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. From where we get "mind your own P's and Q's". |
| China banned the pigtail in 1911 as it was seen as a symbol of feudalism. |
| In Britain 70% mothers go to work. |
| Angel Falls in Venezuela is the worlds highest waterfall, The water of Falls drops 3,212 feet (979 meters). |
| California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ. |
| In India the number of motorized vehicles have increased from 0.2 million in 1947 to 36.3 million in 1997. |
| India never invaded any country in her last 10000 years of history. |
| Singapore is one of two cities in the world with a tropical rainforest. |
| Burma is the only country where the cars are right hand-driven and driven on the right side of the road. |
| Laos is the most bombed country in the world. |
| Norway is the world's third largest oil exporter. |
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