Heh, the planner that they make us use at my school has a "Off-beat Oddity" every other page, which is basically just these random facts that are pointless and stupid. For Example:
It is impossible to lick your elbow. 66% of the people who read this will attempt to.
An Octopus' eye is as big as a basketball.
Pain travels at 300 mph
Those were some of the facts I remembered off the top of my head from the book, there a lot more. Also, a fact I looked up while doing a report on why chocolate is so addicting:
If you eat 25 pounds of chocolate, it has the same effect on the brain as Marijuana.
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Hmmm... sounds like mine! Except there are facts about Canada instead.
For example, Prince Edward Island has the most people per square foot than any province in Canada
139000 people...2184 square miles...
That's density of 63.6 per square mile, which means your most densely-populated province falls even short of the U.S. average.
New Jersey is the most densely populated U.S. state, at 8.5 million in 7425 = 1144.8 per square mile, which is sixteen times as crowded as Prince Edward Island.
Then there's Washington, D.C., which has been undergoing a steady decrease in population for the last 40 years and STILL has density over 9,000 per square mile. And as I've seen firsthand, those 40 years have had no effect, or maybe even an inverse effect, on I-495 (Capital Beltway) traffic.
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Considering we have twice the size of the US and a tenth of your population, I guess that we're not coming close to beating the States in population density.
more like 1.1 times (not 2 times) the size and 1/9 (not 1/10) the population
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picky, picky.