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need some world facts.

Creamy Goodness · 2005-01-04 17:27:14

i've been given an essay to do :O and i thought i'd do a bit of reasearch on the net about the topic. i need some facts like these. "Americans spend $13 Billion on ice-cream annually" "Since 1970 40% of the world's rainforest's have been cut down" basically facts about the developed world and the developing world. they can…

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i've been given an essay to do :O

and i thought i'd do a bit of reasearch on the net about the topic.

i need some facts like these.

"Americans spend $13 Billion on ice-cream annually"
"Since 1970 40% of the world's rainforest's have been cut down"

basically facts about the developed world and the developing world.

they can be strange, funny, shocking etc...
but they got to be real.

anyone know any sites which would help me with this, i'm not entirely sure what to type in google

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#2 04-01-2005 6:28pm

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Um, whats the actual topic?

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#3 04-01-2005 6:33pm

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america spends more on pornography
than it does on foreign aid

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#4 04-01-2005 6:38pm

Miles

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Try this it has a whole bunch of stuff:

CIA World Fact Book

Hope that's what your looking for. :cool:

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#5 04-01-2005 6:40pm

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doodle_sketch wrote:

Um, whats the actual topic?

the topic is

Ours is a consumer-driven world.

"europeans spend $11 billion on ice-cream each year"
"annual spend on pet-foods in the states and europe account to $17 billion"
"europeans spend $50 billion a year on cigarettes"

write an article to be published in a young adult magazine in which you consider some implications (serious and/or humorous) of the above facts.

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#6 04-01-2005 6:41pm

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Miles wrote:

Try this it has a whole bunch of stuff:

CIA World Fact Book

Hope that's what your looking for. :cool:

That's what I was gonna post, facts for every country in the world...

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#7 04-01-2005 6:43pm

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thanks for the link to the CIA world fact book

i'll have a better look at it later on, it does looks interesting though

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#8 04-01-2005 6:45pm

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How about Ireland has 3.4 million cell phones. That's a consumer trend.

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#9 04-01-2005 6:46pm

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Cremo wrote:

thanks for the link to the CIA world fact book

i'll have a better look at it later on, it does looks interesting though

Yeah I learned a lot about Ireland on that site let alone any place else...

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#10 05-01-2005 12:41am

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Fact: Ireland is a sh!t-hole.

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#11 05-01-2005 1:11am

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Have a look at my thread here and the link to nationmaster...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=214651

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#12 05-01-2005 1:16am

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Aava wrote:

Fact: Ireland is a sh!t-hole.

dazz roit!!

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#13 05-01-2005 1:28am

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2 Espressi wrote:

That's what I was gonna post, facts for every country in the world...

Me too.

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#14 05-01-2005 3:36am

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Aava wrote:

Fact: Ireland is a sh!t-hole.

FACT: An expensive sh!te hole

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#15 06-01-2005 3:08am

Aava

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Ah, touché.

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#16 06-01-2005 4:24am

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Fact: You can leave Ireland at any time, unless your in prison, in which case, get off the internet and stop wasting my tax money, scum.

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