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FACTOID # 61: Indonesia contains the most known mammal species - and the most mammal species under threat.

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You can be imprisoned for not voting in Fiji, Chile and Egypt - at least in theory.
In the last Argentinian elections, 21% of the votes were declared invalid.
In Belgium, 55% of government ministers are female. The country’s first female parliamentarian was appointed in 1921.

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