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How Many Countries Are There? Simple Question, Ridiculously Complicated Answer.

Let’s ask the Olympics! If they don’t know, nobody knows. Oh, nobody knows? Fantastic. Before we have world peace, we’re going to have to have world agree-on-how-many-countries-there-are first.

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