Tell me useless trivia about your country

Tell me useless trivia about your country.

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Our country has the second biggest landmass in the world but its name literally means "village"

We're like four countries. Or 3 depending on how angry the Irishman you're talking to is.

poles and turks ruin everthing for everyone here

English forces have never occupied saxony or had a direct war with saxony

Do the countries that compose the UK use their own languages like, for example, Spain? Or did they turned in lazy monolingual anglos?

Pic related beetle is the symbol of Blekinge where I'm from

The Falklands are british thanks to us
We were the biggest navy in the Pacific at the end of the XIX century.
We bombarded a lot of pacific ports of other south americans countries just for the keks.

We are the first country in the world with gay marriag.

I'm very proud of it :)

*First one to legalize gay marriage

The first lady of the US is from Slovenia :o

Spanish speaking country with most inhabitants

There are states between California and New York

A Canadian invented basketball/ape-hoop.

Not really.

The second biggest native language in the isles is Welsh, with about half a million speakers (19% of Welsh population). The signs only had English on them up until recently.

The official language of Scotland is English, with very few people speaking Gaelic or other Native languages.

Northern Ireland speaks English. The second most spoken language in Northern Ireland is Mandarin Chinese. Many people in Northern Ireland are fiercely pro-Crown.

Ireland is a separate country and not part of the United Kingdom, but they still speak English for the most part.

Almost all United Kingdom residents use English as their mother tongue, at best you will find people who are bilingual but use English more in daily life, the one exception being small rural Welsh pockets of natives, but even then they will speak English perfectly.

What's this from my friend?

we are the top producer of oranges in the whole world

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Yuri on Ice

There is a city called batman

We have the most olympic gold medals per capita

We have a city called Kars. (pronounced cars)

We have a city founded by Confederate soldiers who left the US after the Civil War

>Kars
ree turkish thieves

we're fucking shite

Neil Armstrong was the first person on the moon.

2nd largest country, 1/10th the population of the USA, and 75% of it lives near the border.

Basically it's massive and empty.

Finnish is one of the worlds oldest languages still spoken

we have government-supported UFO research organizations

Russia has the biggest numbers of abortions per year.

We love gaysex

Mexico has the world's smallest volcano

Also the biggest numbers of teenage suicide.

Good

LITTLE

MEXICAN

This is called a soup here

good post

VOLCANOES

What is this? Pie? Cheese?

El ParaguANO

good

We make gum from mastic trees that can only be grown in Chios

trivia =/= butthurt

>only grows in chios
Sorry to burst your bubble m8 but those trees grow in izmir as well

We are the only country that has grown from the 3th World to the First World

In 1974 a few politicans tried to sabotage the football World Cup because it was called fascistic. After Germany won they denied ever spoken against - one of those was Merkel.

It's a little known fact about the famous Bondi beach but I once dropped my daks and took a shit between the flags on a busy day and it spread through the crowd without anyone knowing where it came from.
Not very useful trivia.

Also the biggest rate of death by heroin and alchohol.

We have the biggest italian, japanese and lebanese diaspora of the world

Finns traditionally give knives (so-called "puukko") as gifts, but after a while you end up with so many of them that you don't know what to do with them anymore.

It's also highly offensive to sell them, so you're pretty much stuck with them.

Those things can barely produce anything

It's basically a corn cake with some onions on it.

We call america as me gook

VERY GOOD
t. don't drink

t. Mario Shizuki Muhammad Barroso

people use dicks as measure for money. >How much is a bread?
>3 dick per kilo

>It's a not well-known fact, that Hugo Boss partially helped Germany conquering France in the second World War by promising the French that he would be working for them after it.

Meh, only gypsy's chew that gum anyway.
It tastes like a car tire.

Literal shitpost

We invented the motorized esky.

WE

We don't say Love

I'll tell you about my county instead.
I live in Canterbury which is in Kent, and the 13A from the bus station goes to a place called Sandwich, the place the sandwich is named after (well, the Earl of Sandwich, about 250 years ago)

>Around 21% of Germans never ate any other meat than pork
>There is a word in german for "you're clever but lazy like a foreigner"
>There is a law for placing your doorbell

>mfw this is actually true and it sounds ridiculous in english
kek

Didn't you invent the fridge too

Skanderborg is the country in the world with the highest amount of Suzuki Swift cars per capita.

How do you say it in portuguese?

Skanderborg is the city in the world*

Here it is

t. sadist

pau ou pila
>meu aquele carro custa 20 pau (pau pode significar mil reais tb)

>Quanto é uma garrafa de água?
>2 pila
>2 pau

We only sing about ourselves, mostly in melancholic or depressed manner.

Sandwich >>>> Hamburger

You don't have a word for it or you don't use it?

In 1981 a guy drowned when he tried to break the world record in drinking the biggest amount of beer out of a bathtub.

The biggest bridge in Brazi links Rio de Janeiro and Niterói.

Did he black out or what? how do you drown in a bathtub?

In Denmark we call Norwegians 'fjeldaber' (Direct translation: fell (landscape) monkeys)

fagggggggg

There are 67 native languages here.

Send me one :D

I've only been to Scotland and Wales, everything was bilingual in Wales and the same in Scotland but to a much lesser extent. Dunno about Ireland but even the autists in /eire/ use english. They do teach it in school tho.
England has a population 8 times larger than the other three *combined* so it dominates everything including language.

Hungary is the number one exporter of foie de gras

We're also the only country amongst the top ten medal earners of the Olympic Games who never got the chance to organize one

Well if you fill it up and get unconscious you can drown when you're in it.

CUTE!

Ahmmmmed

Whats the name of the city

Your anime character is literally me.

Americana-SP

very good post

Pretty cool actually. We call it "sanduíche" in Brazil :D

Texas?

The faroese parlament is the oldest in the world stil in use.

We have 68 official languages

One of our PMs disappeared after a swim at a beach

Two adjacent towns called Sucking and Petting were so often visited by teenagers making vulgar jokes that the former city changed it's name.

Well, you recently got the chance but then cancelled.

So I'm not the only one making things up?

>Sucking
I know the town petting, but i can't find a town called "Sucking".

In Austria there's a town called Fucking.
"Hell" means bright and is often added to beer brand names which again are often names of cities. Which causes the beer to be called: