Juggling Diversity

A survival kit for Newcommers to Jacobs University Bremen

Funny Facts about countries around the World May 6, 2008

Filed under: Funny Facts about countries around the World — Survival Kit @ 8:32 pm

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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.