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1. Aussies
   picked up the most medals each at the href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/spo_oly_med_syd_200_cap">
   Sydney Olympics, which brings them into the href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/spo_sum_oly_med_all_tim_cap&int=10">
   all time top 11.
2. Finns are
   perhaps the world's greatest athletes, href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/spo_sum_oly_med_all_tim_cap">
   ranked first at summer Olympics and href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/spo_win_oly_med_all_tim_cap&int=10">
   third in winter games.
3. Almost half of href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ec">Ecuador is href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/env_pro_are">protected.
4. Kenyan women
   href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/lab_tot_wor_tim_fem_ove_mal">
   work 35% longer than their men folk.
5. Ethiopians
   are by far the most agricultural people on earth (both href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/lab_agr_wor_mal">men
   and href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/lab_agr_wor_fem">women)
6. Looking for href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ez">Czech and href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/lo">Slovak men?
   Half are in href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/lab_ind_wor_mal">factories.
7. American
   women have the most href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/lab_fem_dec_mak">powerful
   jobs.
8. Southern European women hugely href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/lab_une_gen_rat">outnumber
   their men folk amongst the unemployed.
9. The top 8 most href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/eco_hum_dev_ind">developed
   countries all speak Germanic languages. Every such country is in
   the top 20.
10. Belgium is
    the only country in the world where women dominate href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/gov_fem_min">the
    ministry.

Source: href="http://www.nationmaster.com/facts.php">www.nationmaster.com

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