The country with the most pyramids in the world is Sudan
The rulers of the ancient kingdoms of Kush built about 255 pyramids in Nubia, today's Sudan. That is more than twice as many as were built in ancient Egypt.
Weird facts about countries
More pyramids in Sudan than in Egypt, a navy with no sea, and a country that measures happiness. Every fact here comes from the question bank of Bullshit, our bluffing party game, and each one was checked before it went into the game.
The largest desert in the world is Antarctica
A desert is defined by how little rain or snow it gets, not by heat. The Antarctic desert covers about 14.2 million square kilometers, followed by the Arctic, and the Sahara only comes third.
In the Arctic town of Longyearbyen, it has been forbidden for decades to bury the dead
The ban was set in 1950, when it turned out that bodies of residents who died in the 1918 flu pandemic hadn't decomposed in the frozen ground. With special permission, ashes can still be buried there.
Huge China runs entirely on one time zone
China spans five geographical time zones, but the whole country runs on a single clock, eight hours ahead of Greenwich.
Canada has more than two million lakes
Canada has over two million lakes, holding a large share of the world's fresh water. It has the largest total area of freshwater lakes in the world.
Bolivia, which doesn't have a single meter of coastline, has a navy
Bolivia lost its entire coast to Chile in the War of the Pacific, from 1879 to 1883. Its navy, about 5,000 people, patrols Lake Titicaca and the rivers today.
The only country in the world whose flag isn't square or rectangular is Nepal
Nepal's flag is the only national flag in the world that isn't rectangular, and the only one taller than it is wide. It is made of two triangular pennants, one above the other.
Every year in England, people race down a steep hill chasing a wheel of cheese
The race is held every year at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire. Competitors chase a wheel of cheese down a slope about 180 meters long, and the first one across the finish line wins the cheese.
Since 1992, it has been illegal in Singapore to sell chewing gum
The ban took effect in 1992, after vandals stuck gum on subway door sensors and cleanup got expensive. Since 2004, therapeutic gum such as nicotine gum has been allowed.
The Kingdom of Bhutan officially measures, alongside its GDP, its national happiness
The idea came from Bhutan's fourth king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, in 1972. Gross National Happiness was written into Bhutan's 2008 constitution as a goal of the government.