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Country Rankings/Random World Info

When I was looking for an idea about what to post on, I stumbled upon a web site that contained links to various interesting facts about the world and different countries. I found quite a few of the links to be very interesting. The first I visited was the Olympic medals won per GDP country rankings. I noticed that Cuba and North Korea, both nations the USA doesn't tend to look highly upon, are ranking in 1st and 7th respectively. As the website states, that statistic doesn't count for much or really mean anything but I found it interesting. One more thing that jumped out at me is under the Likelihood of a Terrorist Attack link, North Korea was ranked 186th of 186 (lowest chance of a terrorist attack). I just found it curious that with all the threats North Korea has made about nuclear weapons, no major terrorist threat has come to them. Anywho this is a pretty neat site and contains some interesting information, you can find the link below:

http://www.photius.com/rankings/index.html

posted by Anonymous @ 3/12/2006 10:40:00 PM