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- The UK is officially the 15th happiest country in the world according to the UN. (Finland is at the top of the list.)
- MPs in the Canadian House of Commons sit at desks which you can hide snacks in. The Prime Minister had to apologise yesterday for having eaten a chocolate bar.
- On average, China has been building one large coal power plant every week since 2016.
- Chemnitz in Germany used to be known as Karl Marx Stadt, and still has a huge monument to him.
- Italian football team A.S. Roma have started a Pidgin English Twitter account for the club's Nigerian fans.
- An energy drink in Zambia became popular after it was found to have the same key ingredient as Viagra.
- The word 'opera' derives from the Latin for 'work'.
- Baking a periodic table of cupcakes is a surprisingly common thing to do.
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