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Just as a matter of interest....this map shows where 2% of Australians live

More proof (if ever it’s needed) that the world is more whimsically interesting than you may have thought...

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The most common surnames in Western Europe are…
Norway - Hansen
Sweden - Andersson
Finland - Korhonen
Denmark - Jensen
Scotland - Smith
England - Smith
Wales - Jones
Northern Ireland - Wilson
Eire - Murphy
Germany - Müller
Netherlands - de Jong
Belgium - Peeters
France - Martin
Austria - Gruber
Switzerland - Müller
Spain - Garcia
Portugal - Almeida
Italy - Rossi
Poland - Nowak
Czech Republic - Novak
Slovenia - Novak

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Only two countries on Earth do not use any version of the metric system: the USA and Burma.

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If you translated the Chinese names for some European countries literally, you would get…
Norway - ‘more prestige’
Sweden - ‘very lucky soldiers’
UK - ‘brave land’
Eire - ‘love your orchid’
Germany - ‘moral land’
Netherlands - ‘lotus orchid’
France - ‘law land’
Spain - ‘west class tooth’
Portugal - ‘wine tooth’
Italy - ‘meaning big profit’

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Only eight of the world’s countries do not give mothers any maternity leave at all, namely…
Suriname
Liberia
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Nauru
Western Samoa
Tonga
USA

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At some point in our history, we peace-loving British have invaded every country on Earth except…
Guatemala
Bolivia
Paraguay
Sweden
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Andorra
Monaco
Vatican City
Belarus
Uzbekistan
Chad
Ivory Coast/Côte d’Ivoire
Kyrgyzstan
Burundi
Mali
Tajikistan
Central African Republic
Marshall Islands
Republic of Congo
Sao Tome
Principe

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If all this isn't inspiration and motivation for you to attend our next AGM, I don't know what is.

It'll take place at 1100 on Tuesday 27 May at either Mike and Pauline's coffee van on the Quayside if it's a nice day, or at Oliver's in Grainger Market if it's not

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Let's finish off with a final tranche of 'food flags'...