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-====== Fun Facts ======+====== Fun facts ======
  
 ===== North Korea ===== ===== North Korea =====
  
   * SEK Studio, a North Korean animation studio, has animated popular Western works such as //The Simpsons Movie//, //Futurama: Bender's Big Score//, and an episode of //Avatar: The Last Airbender//. (([[https://www.cinemaescapist.com/2018/06/short-history-north-korea-animation-sek/]]))   * SEK Studio, a North Korean animation studio, has animated popular Western works such as //The Simpsons Movie//, //Futurama: Bender's Big Score//, and an episode of //Avatar: The Last Airbender//. (([[https://www.cinemaescapist.com/2018/06/short-history-north-korea-animation-sek/]]))
 +  * Some military trucks in North Korea have been retrofitted to use wood as a fuel. (([[https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/how-north-korea-fuels-its-military-trucks-with-trees/]]))
  
 ===== China ===== ===== China =====
  
   * Mao Zedong wanted to replace Chinese characters with the Latin alphabet, but Stalin convinced him not to. (([[https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2017/01/19/one-country-two-systems]]))   * Mao Zedong wanted to replace Chinese characters with the Latin alphabet, but Stalin convinced him not to. (([[https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2017/01/19/one-country-two-systems]]))
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 +===== Czechoslovakia =====
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 +  * Only 37% of Slovaks and 36% of Czechs were in favor of the break-up of Czechoslovakia. (([[https://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/09/world/at-fork-in-road-czechoslovaks-fret.html]]))
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 +===== Liberia =====
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 +  * Other than the United States, Liberia is the only country in the world whose capital, Monrovia, is named after a US President.
  
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