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Small facts, big facts
Swazilan was the last African country that had kept its name from the colonial period.
The country is named Eswatini since 2018.
An adult skeleton is composed of 206 bones.
70% of Earth’s surface is water, 30% is land or ice.
Several studies have shown a correlation between the music aired in a shop and sales.
Classical music → People buy more expensive stuff.
Slower music → People slow down and buy more.
Loud music → People fasten up but do not buy less. (Great for the shop.)
A year is technically 365.24219 ephemeris days.
The complicated system we have with leap years every 4 years, except for multiples of 100 unless they are multiples of 400, is akin to average increments of 365.2425 days.
This requires very infrequent adjustments to the Gregorian calendar.
#Luxemburg, a country with 600,000 inhabitants, has a total GDP over 70 billion $.
It is more than a country like Burma, despite it has a population over 55 million.
Our planet is the only one within the Solar system to have plate tectonics.
There are only 2 countries in Latin America with a capital having the same name as the country itself.
> Guatemala
> Mexico
Small facts, big facts
