It's a fact, it's a fact

The CIA's World Fact Book has effectively held me prisoner at different points in my life. Today, I once again collapsed under the pressure and fed my insidious addiction. Here's some interesting stuff:

• Macao became the first European settlement in the far-east when Portuguese sailors first colonized the area in the 1500’s. Today, this tiny country (actually, it’s the Macau Special Administrative Region of China) consisting of two small islands and the bottom tip of a peninsula jutting out from Southern China into the South China Sea houses the densest population concentration in the world; 449,198 people in an area 10% the size of Washington, DC. Ironically, the extremely affluent residents in Macau enjoy the second longest life expectancy in the world (82.12 yrs) behind Andorra (83.51 yrs, located between France and Spain)
• Liberia’s unemployment rate equals 85%
• Gauging by 2001 estimates, the United States consumes 19,650,000 billion barrels of oil per day, while the second and third highest consumers, the European Union and Japan, consume a collective 19,830,000 billion barrels/day. That means our consumption equals 99.09% of all those countries combined
• There are more cellular telephones registered in Hong Kong (7,241,400) than there are people (6,898,686)
• The HIV/AIDS figures in the south of Africa are staggering: 38.8% of the adult population in Swaziland (independent nation located between South Africa and Mozambique) contract the disease, 37.3% of the adults in Botswana, and 28.9% in Lesotho (tiny Kingdom completely enclosed by South Africa). The numbers go on and on in that region.
• The border between Ethiopia and Eritrea has yet to be firmly established in the wake of their 2 ½ year war that ceased in late 2000, which followed in the wake of a 30 year insurgency in Ethiopia that finally afforded Eritrea independence in 1993 (and all the coastline). Fun times in Eastern Africa.
• Canada holds the second largest proved oil reserves behind Saudi Arabia; our northern neighbor has obviously focused its concentration on Natural Gas considering it ranks 21st in proved NG reserves, yet produces more NG than any other country except Russia
• Russia is really big
• There’s an island named Jersey. That means something.

Anybody else have any choice factoids that the small, sad world reading Pop, not Soda simply must know?