Populated Area facts
While investigating facts about Populated Area, I found out little known, but curios details like:
About the Oakland Buddha, placed by a resident on a street corner to prevent illegal dumping, the statue has now become a shrine for the local Vietnamese population who leave offerings and have even built a shelter for the Buddah. Crime in the area dropped 82%
Opossums are great at reducing the tick population in a given area. Scientists estimate that a single opossum can kill about 5,000 ticks in a single season.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about Populated Area I managed to collect.
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The Devil's Cigar is a fungus that strangely only exists in small area of Texas and Japan separated by 11,000 km the two populations have been separated for at least nineteen million years. It looks like a cigar, hisses, releases clouds resembling smoke, then splits open into a flower shape.
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The rent in the most desired area Tokyo is 1/6 the average rent of San Francisco. Even though Tokyo is much more densely populated.
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Only about 12 rats per year enter Alberta, Canada and are quickly killed by provincial rat control specialists before they can breed. Alberta is the largest rat free populated area in the world.
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During Passover, Coca-Cola sells coke with sugar instead of corn syrup in areas with a substantial Jewish population because corn syrup isn't kosher.
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There is an underground town in the Australian outback called Coober Pedy. Half of its population live below ground to escape the area's hellish temperatures.
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Chickens are great at reducing the tick population in a given area. Scientists estimate that a single chicken can eat 22113 ticks in a single season
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Chinese dumplings are called "Peking ravioli" in the Boston area because when Joyce Chen opened her Chinese restaurant in Cambridge she thought it would sound more appealing to the large Italian population in the area.
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Cities house 62.7% of the US population but occupies only 3.5% of land area
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The most densely populated area to ever exist on earth was a largely self-governed, crime-infested block in Hong Kong. Called Kowloon Walled City, it had a population density of 1,255,000 people per square kilometer
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Washington, DC, is home to one of the largest Ethiopian populations in the world, 2nd only to that of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. While official census data shows about 30,000 Ethiopians in the DC area, others estimate that the true number is closer to 250,000.
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9 of the 10 most densely populated cities and towns in the US are located within the New York City metropolitan area
British empire, "the empire on which the sun never sets", was the largest empire in history. By 1922 it held sway over about 458 million people, one-fifth of the world's population at the time. The empire covered more than 13,012,000 sq mi, almost a quarter of the Earth's total land area. - source
After Chernobyl meltdown, Russian military pilots created rain clouds to protect Moscow from radioactive fallout. British scientist allowed into the area, said that the population in Belarus was exposed to radiation doses 20 to 30 times higher than normal as a result of the rainfall - source
In 1962 the USSR decided to test a 300kt nuclear bomb in space over a populated area, the resulting EMP fused 350 miles of telephone lines, shut down 621 miles of buried power cables and burnt down a power station. The following year they signed & ratified a treaty banning tests in outer space.
Population density and political preference go hand in hand; people living in high density areas tend to vote liberal whereas people living in low density areas tend to vote conservative. - source
Every major vehicle flown from Cape Canaveral has been wired with a remote explosive destruct system to be used if the vehicle should travel off course and towards populated areas
In 2006 a beaver pair moved to Alhambra creek in California. When they did they transformed the area into a wildlife refuge, revitalizing populations of River Otters, Minks, and various birds.
When area codes were first introduced, they were set up so the highest populated areas would be the easiest to dial on a rotary phone. New York was 212, Los Angeles 213, Chicago 312, and Detroit 313.
Baltimore and Washington DC are slowly becoming one city with a metro area covering 4 states, and a total population of over 9 million people
The Greater Tokyo Area has more population than Canada.
The sea route that Titanic sunk on should have been populated by many other ships, which could have saved victims of the sinking, however, ships transferred their coal to Titanic in port so she could make the date of her voyage, resulting in the area being virtually isolated when Titanic sunk.
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Number of hunters in various European and North American countries (relative to the total population, relative to total land area and by absolute numbers)
