- Google has a pet T-rex, named Stan, which lives at their California headquarters. Founders bought it to remind the employees to not let Google go extinct.
- Tuvalu is the world's smallest national economy with a GDP of about U.S.$33 million because of its very small population, a lack of natural resources,
reliance on foreign aid, negligible capital investment, demographic
problems, and low average incomes.
- Saudi
Arabia is the world's only country to forbid women from driving. While
it is not technically illegal for women to drive, only men are awarded driving
licences - and women who drive in public risk being fined and arrested by the
police.
- At U.S.$2.46 trillion in GDP, California
is now the sixth-largest economy in the world, surpassing France, thanks to a
robust state economy and strong U.S. dollar. California
was the world’s eighth-largest economy in 2014. France
is the world’s seventh-largest economy with a growth domestic product of U.S.$2.42
trillion, and India is the eighth-largest with U.S.$2.09 trillion, according to the
latest International Monetary Fund data. Read more here.
- ABBA
is a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm in 1972 by
members Agnetha Fältskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson,
and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. They became one of the most commercially
successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide
from 1974 to 1982.
(from left) Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog, & Bjorn Ulvaeus
During the band's active years, Fältskog & Ulvaeus and Lyngstad & Andersson were married. At the height of their popularity, both relationships were suffering strain which ultimately resulted in the collapse of the Ulvaeus–Fältskog marriage in 1979 and the Andersson–Lyngstad marriage in 1981. These relationship changes were reflected in the group's music, with later compositions featuring more introspective and dark lyrics in contrast to their usual pure-pop sound. (Source for text & picture: Wikipedia)
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