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Which country has the world's largest merchant shipping fleet by registered tonnage?

Panama

Panama operates an open registry, so ships from all over the world fly its flag for regulatory and tax reasons. Liberia and the Marshall Islands run the next largest.

When did tomatoes reach Italy?

After 1500

Tomatoes are American in origin and arrived in Europe in the sixteenth century. They were grown as ornamentals for decades before anyone ate them widely.

Which pair of neighbouring countries has never fought a war with each other?

Sweden and Norway since 1814

The brief 1814 conflict was the last. Sweden has avoided war entirely since then, one of the longest unbroken records of any state.

The oldest surviving map showing the whole known world comes from where?

Ancient Babylon

The Imago Mundi, a clay tablet from around the sixth century BC, shows Babylon at the centre of a circular world ringed by a bitter river.

What is unusual about Mount Athos in Greece?

It bars women

An autonomous polity within Greece, governed by twenty monasteries. The ban on women, the avaton, has been in place for over a thousand years and is written into Greek law.