France has the lowest abortion rate - 12 per 1000 women. Over a 10 million children die every year. 500 000 women die in pregnanacy and child birth every year.

The Seikan tunnel connects the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. It is 53.85 km long, of which 23.3 km lie 100 m below the sea level.

Nobel Peace prize was awarded to UN peacekeeping forces in 1988.

Adolf Hitler was an aspiring artist and unemplyed ex-corporal. Benito Mussolini was once editor of a socialist newspaper, from which position he was ousted.

The first established railway began in 1825 in UK, in 1829 in France, in 1830 in USA, in 1835 in Germany and in 1836 in Canada.