he world's largest man-made oyster reef was created in

Maryland.

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Due to overfishing and disease, the oyster population in Maryland's
Chesapeake Bay was seriously suffering. But thanks to dedicated work by
scientists at the Horn Point Laboratory, the Army Corps, the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the Nature Conservancy, the
state is now the location of the world's largest man-made oyster reef. Home
to more than one billion oysters, the area is a no-fishing zone, which will
hopefully give the population a chance to recover.
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A record-breaking 92 countries competed in the 2018 Winter
Olympics.
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Every four years, the Olympic games bring together the most competitive
athletes from around the world. And when the PyeongChang Winter
Games were held in 2018, 2,952 athletes were expected to show up from a
total of 92 countries. That beat the previous record of 2,800 athletes from
88 countries who participated in the Winter Games in 2014.
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South Sudan is the youngest country in the world.
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Some countries are hundreds of years old, while others can trace their
nation's history back for thousands of years. But South Sudan in North
Africa just gained its independence from Sudan in 2011, which currently
makes it the youngest country in the world.
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More than 52 percent of the world's population is under 30
years old.
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According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), as of 2012, 50.5 percent of the world's population
were people under the age of 30. Around 89.7 percent of those young
people live in emerging and developing economies like the Middle East and
Africa.
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People 60 years and older make up 12.3 percent of the global
population.
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Although the majority of the human population is currently under 30 years
old, there are still plenty of older folks among us. In fact, 12.3 percent of
people on Earth are 60 years old and older. That number is expected to
reach 22 percent by 2050.
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There are more than 24 time zones around the world.
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If the Earth's time zones were each one hour apart, then we would have 24
times zones, which sounds pretty straightforward. However, the situation is
a little more complicated than that. Since many time zones only differ by 30
or 45 minutes, they don't fit into a neat and tidy 24 hour span, which means
that there are more than 24, though it's hard to say exactly how many.
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Nearly half of the world's population watched both the 2010 and
2014 FIFA World Cup games.
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Soccer—or football, depending on who you ask—is the most popular sport
around the world. That's why when the FIFA World Cup games took place
in both 2010 and 2014, nearly half of the world's population (around 3.2
billion people) tuned in to see who would win.