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    Fast Facts: Dec. 4

    Norway consumes more Mexican food than any other European nation.

    France gets 75 percent of its energy from nuclear power plants.

    Belgium is about the same size as New Jersey.

    The city of Edinburgh, Scotland, is built on top of an extinct volcano.

    Downtown London has sunk almost and inch since 1995.

    In Greenland, there’s a place called Thank God Harbor.

    During the summer months in Reykjavik, Iceland, the sun is visible 24 hours a day.

    In Finland, saunas outnumber cars.

    There are more than 5,000 islands in the British Isles.

    When Italy was founded in 1861, only 3 percent of Italians spoke Italian fluently.

     

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