Things You'll Only See In Russia

"The Lungs of the World"

Russia has the world's largest forest reserves. The amount of forest they have totally outnumbers the Amazon Rainforest. We have Russia to thank for supplying us with fresh oxygen and absorbing the carbon dioxide! These forests have been preserved from industrialization. 

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The More You Know

  • Shakespeare is easier to understand, makes more sense, and is punnier when it's recited in its original pronunciation instead of a modern English accent.
  • Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses—but the illustrator couldn't draw them.
  • The population of the United States increases by one person every 12 seconds.
  • The first time Reddit was mentioned in the New York Times, it was described as "foolish collectivism" that "grinds away the Web's edges and saps it of its humanity".
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