jueves, marzo 23, 2006

IN FACT by Prospect I

  • Senegal's only athlete at the Winter Olympics, competing as an alpine skier, has never been to Senegal.
  • The words tomato, coyote, avocado, and chocolate all come from the Aztec language Nahuatl.
  • 80 per cent of British companies have a website—more than any other country in the world.
  • Per capita, there are more psychoanalysts in Buenos Aires than anywhere in the world
  • Asians make up 35 per cent of the undergraduate body at MIT, but only 4 per cent of the US population.
  • America's prison population is higher than China's.