Facts about Afghanistan

The New Year in Afghanistan, called Nawroz, is celebrated on 21 March which is the first day of spring.

The largest city in Afghanistan is Kabul, the capital.

Afghanistan is a landlocked country sharing borders with Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and China.

Largest producer of opium, 65% of global opium poppy cultivation, 95% of world's market ($64 billion), with 2.9 million opium farmers

Largest producer of heroin, 380 tonnes of Heroin in annual production (~90% of global production)

Largest source of refugees, continuously since 1980

Lowest electricity consumption per capita, 7.6 kWh per person per year

Highest infant mortality rate, 119.41 deaths per 1000 live births

Highest annual prevalence of opiates use, 2.65% of population

Largest recipient of foreign aid, $6,884,700,000 per year

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The banner, which depicts a red-eyed pig greedily clutching Legia's balls, was unveiled ahead of Warsaw's Europa League play-off game against Sheriff Tiraspol. A separate banner underneath the Euro-covered pig read: "And the 35,000 fine goes to..."

The first-leg match finished 1-1, with Legia travelling to Sheriff next week, in a bid to reach the Europa League group stage. Legia were originally fined due to fans displaying a banner, which was the width of an entire stand, during a Champions League qualifier against Kazakh team Astana. The banner marked the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, when Polish resistance fighters captured large parts of the capital city but were eventually crushed by occupying German forces. It's expected that Legia will see some sort of retrospective action taken by UEFA following this second, but none has been taken as yet. Perhaps we will see a third if they do face another punishment.

10 Bloodiest Battles of World War II

10. Battle of Monte Cassino, 17 January–18 May 1944: 185,000 casualtiesWaged between the Allies and the joint German and Italian troops in the early part of 1944, the Battle of Monte Cassino was one of the hardest fought battles of the Second World War. The main objective for the Allied forces fighting their way up from Southern Italy was to break through the Germans’ Gustav Line — a series of military fortifications running across Italy — and gain control of Rome. Named after the 1,400-year-old monastery of Monte Cassino that stood at the center of the German defensive line (and which was controversially destroyed by American bombers during the battle), the fighting was made up of four smaller battles that took place in January, February, March and May, respectively. The eventual capture of Rome came at a high price, with at least 125,000 casualties on all sides — and as many as 185,000 by some estimates.
9. Battle of the Bulge, 16 December 1944–25 January 1945: 186,369 c…

Interesting Facts About Twitter

Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets," restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, and has more than 25 offices around the world.

350,000 Tweets are sent every minute.

Twitter has 310 million monthly active users

The FBI has a Twitter slang dictionary.

The official Twitter account of @Sweden is given to a random citizen every week to manage.

In 2013, a fake tweet temporarily wiped out US$130 billion off the stock market.

Justin Bieber has more followers on Twitter than Spain has people.

Facebook, Twitter and The New York Times have been blocked in China since 2009.

After Michael Jackson's death hit the news, he was mentioned in a rate of 5,000 tweets per minute.

Twitter's bird is called La…

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