On 2013, only eleven countries allow same-sex couples to marry.

Since 2000, eleven countries (Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Sweden) and several sub-national jurisdictions (parts of Brazil, Mexico and the United States) allow same-sex couples to marry. Bills legalizing same-sex marriage have been proposed, are pending, or have passed at least one legislative house in Andorra, Colombia, Finland, France, Luxembourg, Nepal, New Zealand, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay as well as in the legislatures of several sub-national jurisdictions (in Scotland as well as parts of Australia, Mexico, and the United States).




On 2013, 84% of the United Kingdom's population live in England



During World War II, Russians used dogs strapped with explosives to blow up German tanks.

They trained the dogs to associate the tanks with food and ended up destroying about 25 German tanks using this method



Butterflies taste with their feet



St. Louis, Missouri was the first U.S. city to host the summer Olympics in 1904



The phrase "rule of thumb" is derived from an old English law whichstated that you couldn't beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.



Every year Alaska has about 5,000 earthquakes, 1,000 of which measure above 3.5 on the Richter scale