The newest country officially recognised by the UN is South Sudan.

"The longest American English word that requires alternating hands when typed on a standard keyboard using standard typing technique is "skepticisms.""

FTFY

Do you have a longer word in another form of English that fits the criterion? Because, if not, my post is correct, regardless of whether or not it's spelled differently in other varieties of English.

Jelly Belly began creating blueberry jelly beans especially for President Ronald Reagan.

Tomatoes are a member of the Nightshade family of plants.
Which includes but is not limited to: Potatoes, Peppers, Eggplants, Tomatoes, Deadly Nightshade.
The leaves and roots of these plants are all poisonous. It is possible to die from ingesting any part of the plant except for the Tomato (in tomatoes)/Peppers (in peppers)/ Potato(in potatoes).
The noble potato produces a small black tomato berry which is toxic when consumed.

The United States government spent $277,000 on "pickle research" in 1993.

The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello LaGuardia.

You can request copies of any mail sent to you in the past 5 years. Under the data protection act of 1998, the postal service must provide copies of any mail from the past 5 years.

Astatine: This element is so rare that the entire amount of its NATURAL occurrence on the earth’s crust would equal to 1 teaspoon.

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Each king in a deck of standard playing cards represents a great king from history:

Spades - King David
Clubs - Alexander the Great
Hearts - Charlemagne
Diamonds - Julius Caesar

According to Amazon manager Jeff Bezos, lightweight packages will be delivered worldwide by low-flying remote-controlled drone as soon as 2015 if the necessary permits can be obtained. So far, no country has proved willing to grant these permits.

"Do you have a longer word in another form of English that meets the criterion?"

'Shantytowns'. I believe this would be split into two words in American English.

Interestingly, you can get much longer words in this way if you use a DVORAK keyboard instead of a QWERTY one, no matter which English language you use.

Yes, there will be packages attached to flying things all over the place. It'll be just like Animal Crossing! We should all start carrying slingshots around everywhere.

Well, that word's not longer, but it does have the same length.

At the height of inflation in the early 1920s, one quintillion German marks were worth about two United States dollars.

Apples are more effective than caffeine at waking someone up.

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I suppose I could argue about relative widths of letters in certain fonts, but it's probably safer just to promise to triple-check next time.

EDIT: Although my computer, with its unerring sense of timing, just came up with 'authenticity', proving us both wrong. *sigh*

Colgate had difficulty marketing their toothpaste in Spanish-speaking countries, as the company name translates into the command "hang yourself."

The flesh and pit of avocados are toxic to most birds.  

Lucy and Linus (who where brother and sister) had another little brother named Rerun. (He sometimes played left-field on Charlie Brown's baseball team, [when he could find it!]).

In the 1985 mayoral election for Boise, Idaho, there were four write-in votes for Mr. Potato Head.

Macaws (parrot species from the new world) are known to eat naturally occurring clay to counteract the effects of poisonous nuts and plant tissues they include in their diet!

In Singapore, it is illegal to urinate in an elevator.

707penguin what I meant was it blocked their gills...

Peladophobia is the fear of bald people.

As you age the moister content of your body naturally decreases.
Newborns are close to 80% water while an adult man is closer to 65%.
Men tend to be drier than women at all stages of life.

In America, someone attempts suicide once every minute, and someone completes a suicide once every 17 minutes. Throughout the world, approximately 2,000 people kill themselves each day.

Saw this on the internet, it shocked me

While Japan enjoys one of the lowest murder rates of any modern nation. Their suicide rate is two to three times higher than other developed nations.

^^Wow, so only one in seventeen American suicide attempts succeed? That surprises me.

^Yeah, and a lot of those are teenagers because their stress levels are so ridiculously high.

In Idaho, it is illegal to give another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than fifty pounds (222.727 Newtons).

Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.

The total length of the amazon river when straightened out is roughly the same distance between New York and Berlin.

Whaling is illegal in Oklahoma. This law seems to make perfect sense until you realise that Oklahoma has no coastline.