2. The Netherlands has built 800 miles of massive dikes and sea walls to hold back the sea.
3. Rats destroy an estimated 1/3 of the world’s food supply each year.
4. The USA has more personal computers than the next 7 countries combined.
5. Members of the armed forces and the police cannot vote in the Dominican Republic.
6. Mexican women spend 15.3 percent of their life in ill health.
7. You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt – at least in theory.
8. The average criminal sentence length is 137 years in Colombia.
9. Two-thirds of the world’s kidnappings occur in Colombia.
10. Two-thirds of the world’s executions occur in China.
11. Former enemies, America and Russia now have a great deal in common – they both lead the world in locking people up.
12. You’re 66 times more likely to be prosecuted in the USA as in France.
Post published in: World News