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These are just some funny facts with which to impress your fellow freshmen and convey a sense of all-knowingness
- A Welsh railway station, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll-gogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, boasts the longest railway station name in the world.
- Bangkok, Thailand hosts the world’s largest Chinatown.
- In Australian English, a banana bender means that a person comes from Queensland.
- Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador.
- Jamaica has 120 rivers.
- China is the second largest fast food market after the United States.
- Belgium is the only country that has never imposed censorship for adult films.
- In Germany, there are over 1,500 types of sausages, such as the Frankfurters
- Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other nation
- The army of Monaco has fewer members than the national orchestra.
- In Great Britain, there exists a law since 1934 which states that the Loch Ness Monster would automatically be subject to nature conservancy protection, if its existence was proven.
- In France it is forbidden to name a pig “Napoleon”.
- The area code of Antarctica is 6721.
- On average, America eats 73000 square meters of pizza per day.
- The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses. Virtually no Greek knows all of them.
- Madagascar produces two thirds of the world’s vanilla.
- Saunas outnumber cars in Finland.
