The Unexpected Rules and Customs of the Amish Community

Amish Population Boom

Even though Amish teenagers are allowed to leave and experiment, about 80 - 90% of them stay within the community. The high retention rate plus a high birth rate means that the Amish population nearly doubles every 20 years. There are a lot of them, and they're always growing!

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The More You Know

  • More than 800 languages are spoken in Papua New Guinea.
  • There was a flying dinosaur the size of a giraffe.
  • It costs the U.S. Mint almost twice as much to mint each penny and nickel as the coins are actually worth. Taxpayers lost over $100 million in 2013 just through the coins being made.
  • There are snakes with two heads, which compete with each other for food.
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