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The Global Public Debt Clock provides a graphic perspective on an important and much discussed global economic issue.

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Meditation vs Masturbation

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A new global comparison of standards of living.

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Every year, World Rivers Day falls on the last Sunday in September. To mark the event, The Big Wild has created an infographic that compares the length and volume of the world's 20 largest rivers.

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A shocking look at literacy around the world.

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Pope visits: Where the pope likes to go on his official travels?

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ColourLovers.com released report on the colors of the social web last last week, based on data analyzed by their Twitter theme tool, they were surprised that blue was such a dominant color in people's profile designs. Was Twitter's default color influencing their design decisions? Or is blue really THE most popular and dominant color online? ...They decided to look at the colors in the brands from the top 100 sites in the world to see if they could paint a more colorful picture.

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Who are the big aid givers? And which countries receive the most aid? More importantly, what is the link between the two?. Some of the biggest countries in the world receive the most aid. But look at the figures as a percentage of the country's gross national income and you get a different picture.

How does our output of digital (and decidedly less tasty) tomatoes compare with our worldwide production of real tomatoes? And perhaps most importantly, who are these casual croppers, and are they anything like their plow-toting counterparts?

The French spend longer in retirement than almost anybody else. French women enjoy 28 years as pensioners and French men 24 years, six years more than the OECD average. Americans, by contrast, have among the shortest spells in retirement: just 18 years for men, and 21 years for women.