It can be surprisingly easy to forget that there are a lot ofcuriositiesaround the world that youwould missif you never traveled or interacted with other people.Someone asked“What’s a crazy fact about your country?” and people from across the globe shared their best examples. We got in touch with veteran travelerJayne Gormanto discuss learning more about the world. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to comment your own thoughts and opinions below.More info:OurtravelhomeThis post may includeaffiliate links.
It can be surprisingly easy to forget that there are a lot ofcuriositiesaround the world that youwould missif you never traveled or interacted with other people.
Someone asked“What’s a crazy fact about your country?” and people from across the globe shared their best examples. We got in touch with veteran travelerJayne Gormanto discuss learning more about the world. So get comfortable as you read through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to comment your own thoughts and opinions below.
More info:Ourtravelhome
This post may includeaffiliate links.
Belgium went 594 days without goverment and didn’t become a crime ridden dystopia.
Bored Pandagot in touch with Jayne Gorman, from thetravelblogOurtravelhometo learn more about exploring the world and the things you might discover. First and foremost, we wanted to know, after years of traveling, what she would tell her younger self.“Don’t overthink it, just do it. When I was younger I had a habit of turning things down if it wasn’t the right time or might have been complicated. I distinctly remember backpacking in Asia and deciding not to include Laos on the itinerary as I could always come back another time. Well, guess what, 15 years later an opportunity to pop into Laos has not presented itself! Now, as a 38-year-old mum with a 4-year-old and a mortgage, I look back at the freedom I had then and think I probably could have done a little bit more with it.”
Bored Pandagot in touch with Jayne Gorman, from thetravelblogOurtravelhometo learn more about exploring the world and the things you might discover. First and foremost, we wanted to know, after years of traveling, what she would tell her younger self.
“Don’t overthink it, just do it. When I was younger I had a habit of turning things down if it wasn’t the right time or might have been complicated. I distinctly remember backpacking in Asia and deciding not to include Laos on the itinerary as I could always come back another time. Well, guess what, 15 years later an opportunity to pop into Laos has not presented itself! Now, as a 38-year-old mum with a 4-year-old and a mortgage, I look back at the freedom I had then and think I probably could have done a little bit more with it.”
In Finland we have 5.5 million people and 3.2 million saunas.
After we put the Indigenous people on reserves we allegedly wanted them to become farmers, but we didn’t just teach them to farm the way White folks farmed with the 19th century technology that was current at the time. We had a “peasant farm” policy where we gave them rudimentary tools and made them farm with old timey techniques, ostensibly due to the belief that they had to “evolve” toward modern farming on their own, but actually so that they could not compete with White farmers and basically stayed farming at a subsistence level or failed at it altogether.(Canada, if you’re wondering.)
Believe it or not, Kazakhstan is the number one exporter of potassium in the world. All of your potassium supplements come from here. I would know, I own a potassium factory.
When it comes to traveling, spending money sometimes isn’t a matter of convenience, it can actually affect yoursafety! So we asked Jayne Gorman to talk a bit about when it’s worth spending that little bit extra. “I think it’s all about working within your budget and making smart choices! Personally, I’ve always favored a mix of high/low travel. I’ll often fly with a budget airline on a short-haul flight so I can splurge on a boutique hotel in my destination. I’d definitely pay a premium for transport if it gives me more time at the destination. But I might self-cater my lunch that day to make up for it!”
The Unicorn is our national animal.
Still my favourite fact is the fact one of our prime ministers probably drowned and to remember him we named a pool after him.Another contender is the fact that in one of the world wars the game plan for if we were invaded (and lost) was to lead them into wildlife.
“Always research the options for airport transfers. In some destinations, Marrakech and Lisbon, for example, a taxi is much faster and just as affordable as public transport. But in Luxembourg, where I’m headed next, all public transport is free. Pre-planning your arrival saves time, money, and stress.” Indeed, Americansmight be surprisedthat in most places there is dedicated transport to and from the airport.
I live in the only industrialized nation without universal healthcare and 14% of working age adults don’t have health insurance.
Most of us stopped using the flags of our country in public or wearing the jerseys of our National team because nowadaya those things translate to supporting the president, who is f*****g stupid.That’s Brazil for ya
We made a commercial openly admitting we misunderstood a native word and ended up naming our country “village”.
We also wanted to hear if she had any extra advice for traveling somewhere completely new in general. “Start a collection on Instagram and save posts with top tips and things you’d like to do at your destination. Save points of interest to a Google map. I create a new list for every destination I visit and will save my hotel, popular restaurants, attractions, etc to a map in advance so it’s easier to plan my days and navigate the destination,” she shared with Bored Panda.
We ate our prime minister. Oh and we also ate his brother
We have more bikes than people
“As data roaming with your own network provider can be very expensive, I recommend downloading an eSIM before traveling. I use a company called Airalo to buy a local eSIM and load it up with a cheap data package as I would literally be lost without my phone.” You can find more on herwebsiteor on herInstagram, and if you want to learn more about life in some countries, check out our article on people confirming or denyingstereotypes.
One of the many is, Denmark is the first country to legalize porn and the porn industry along with sex work such as prostitution/escorts (As long as you’re turned 18)
It’s illegal to handle salmon suspiciously
Our country has the most number of vegetarians yet our chicken dishes are widely popular.
France.We have the longest domestic flights : The first one is from French Polynesia to Paris ; The second one is from Reunion Island to Paris, their duration is respectively 16h and 12h.Oh and our longest land border is with Brazil.
We were the first country to legalize same-sex unions in 1989 🏳️🌈
My country’s whole economic system relied on families of 10 children supporting the 2 parents. And that’s the reason it totally failed, along with heavy corruption and nobody paying taxes, left us with being a country in debt for the last 13 years. Right now, the economic power relies only on tourism and nautical commerce.
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It has no official national language but many of its citizens think it’s English.
The full name of our capital which roughly translates to city of the gods is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
the age of sexual consent used to be 12. yes, you heard that right, 12. it wasn’t even that long ago that this was changed, it was changed to 16 just back in march.
We are most invaded country on earth. Scoring first with whooping 200+ times.
There’s an ongoing court case against a man, who entered the church with a hat.It lasted 4 years and is still going, the procurators once again put it under scrutiny.
The movie The Wolf Of Wall Street was financed with our taxpayers' money. Also we lost a plane.
Despite being a country with continental proportions, more than 8 million square kilometers, we’ve got a notorious lack of atypical natural phenomena. No volcanoes, no earthquakes, no hurricanes, no tsunamis, it doesn’t even snow anywhere in the entire country. On the other hand, we’re in the list of megadiverse countries, with six continental biomes…[EDIT] Ok people, it does snow in here, kinda rarely and only in a very small part of it, but it does. It was a generalization because the huge majority of us have never experienced it in the country, I’d risk saying more people from here have seen snow while traveling abroad than people have within the country. Sorry for the exclusion, I was just making it practical for the argument. Also, fora bolsonaro.
Our navy is the second largest air force in the world
you can marry a dead person (with presidential agreement and under special conditions)
We have a quarter of the world’s drinkable water.
We have the highest density of castles in the world, if the same rate were to be applied to New York, Manhattan alone would have two of them. If you were to apply our castles per capita (roughly 1/5000), New York would have 13,000, the US would have 514,000.
We are fourth in alcohol consumption, somewhere in top 10 tobacco use, #1’s in beer per capita and over 30% of people here are obese
We have the highest number of porn stars per 1 million inhabitants….wow.
Our country declared war to the US sometime during WWI (or WWII? Can’t remember), which to this day hasn’t been ended with a piece treaty or anything. So we’ve technically been in war with the US for the last 100 (80?) years.
On one end of the country, there’s a cocktail where people drink whiskey with a real cut off human toe inside. On the other end, you get a certificate for drinking whiskey and kissing a dead fish.
They say there are more guns than there are people
Our financial system just made the world commit securities fraud
Do people even know where Slovakia is
We have the world’s highest number of ministers per capita (excluding microstates) with one minister per 10.000 people.
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