In France, women’s average marriage age is 30, while in Britain it is 27.5.

There’s a rule on the books in the Philippines that a policeman cannot have a waistline bigger than 34 inches.

The first ticket ever issued for parking at an expired parking meter was given in Oklahoma to a minister who claimed that he had just gone into a shop to get change for the meter.

Since the birth of India’s symbolic billionth baby on May 11, another 3.5 million Indian children have been born. If it continues to grow at its current rate, India’s population will surpass China’s before 2050.

The idea of angels’ wings came from medieval painters who used the image of butterfly wings to differentiate angels from people.

This article appears in September 15 • 2000.

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