facts to know
...ea were used as money in Siberia. The official state sport of Alaska is dog mushing. The Navajo Indian language was successfully used by the US as a code in WWII. Chinatown in San Francisco is the largest Chinese community outside of Asia. The word "taxi" is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese. Peanuts has appeared in about 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries, and has been translated into 21 languages. Some people who live Australia's outback are so far away from the towns and cities that they don’t have schools near them. Instead, students who live in the outback can study through a special program called The School of the Air. Students talk to their teachers on a two-way radio and get assignments through the mail. There is actually a lake in Webster, Massachusetts named Charg (meaning "you fish on your side, I fish on mine, nobody fishes in the middle.). Many years ago it was called Chabanakm, containing fewer letters. This body of water got its name because it was neutral territory and a favored site for powwows among several Indian tribes. To buy a McDonald's extra values meal in Russia it would cost the average Russian worker about a month’s pay. The USA bought Alaska for 2 cents an acre from Russia, for a total of $7.2 million. On September 22, 1986 a single sausage 5,9...