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28 Dec 2009, 11:55 pm

Name something like the capital, current leader, or anything fascinating about the country that the above poster names:

Afghanistan


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29 Dec 2009, 12:22 am

They had a war.





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29 Dec 2009, 12:25 am

Much of the country is below sea level.

Brazil


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29 Dec 2009, 12:26 am

There are a lot of nuts there.




Thailand


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29 Dec 2009, 12:28 am

Thailand has very spicy food

Pakistan


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29 Dec 2009, 12:39 am

Ah, yes. They like their tea very much I'm told (apparently it is offered numerous times everywhere you go) and the word 'chai' is the word for tea.



Yugoslavia


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29 Dec 2009, 1:46 am

Their longtime leader, Tito, was 88 at the time of his death in 1980.

Albania


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29 Dec 2009, 3:14 am

Voldemort was in exile there for 10 years.

Sweden


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29 Dec 2009, 3:39 am

Sweden maintained a stance of neutrality during WWII, for the greater part...

Estonia

(my Father's homeland)


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29 Dec 2009, 3:50 am

Was assimilated into the U.S.S.R. after the Second World War and regained its independence after
the Soviet Union imploded in the early 1990s.


Italy


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29 Dec 2009, 10:14 am

Shaped like a boot.

Morocco


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29 Dec 2009, 10:21 am

Moroccans speak a dialect of French.

France


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29 Dec 2009, 11:11 am

They like their baguettes.

England


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29 Dec 2009, 12:54 pm

they drive on the left side of the road.

China



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29 Dec 2009, 2:52 pm

China is home to over 1/4 of the world's population - and they're still trying to make aphrodisiacs from animal parts, for some reason. (Come on, haven't you people had enough kids?!?)

Lichtenstein


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29 Dec 2009, 3:22 pm

The Principality of Liechtenstein is the only German-speaking country not to share a common frontier with Germany.


Luxembourg


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