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Want basic, up-to-date stats on any country on the planet, no matter how small? Unsure how to pronounce its name? Want to know what its flag looks like, or what form of government it has, plus all sorts of other minutiae? Well, federal intelligence agents are sometimes good for something, like compiling basic data. Even about Tokelau.
From This is True for 18 January 2004
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