Consider Moving To One of These 50 Countries If You're an American on a Budget

South Africa

South Africa's main topic of interest is surely apartheid, the legal separation of races. However, it has since dissolved and is now ruled democratically. South Africa has one of Africa's most developed economies, and the people there speak any handful of eleven languages.

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The More You Know

  • In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
  • About 7% of all humans who have ever lived are alive today.
  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
  • You can major in wine at Cornell University.
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