With all the negativity in the media lately, what’s a fun or positive fact most people don’t know about your country?

by bcrown22

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  2. We have around 15000 registered caves and every year they discover around 300 more.

  3. Belarus has three alphabets – Cyrillic, Latin and Arabic

  5. We used to have the biggest KFC and the tallest flag pole in the world, not anymore though :/

  6. Wait, is this r/HistoryMemes or am I missing something?

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    Because that is not Spain’s flag

  7. There’s more bicycles than people here. we once lynched a politician and his brother and proceeded to partially eat the politician. Weed isn’t actually legal here, it’s condoned. We’ve got two festive holidays in December with sinterklaas visiting us on the 5th and Santa on the eve of the 24th till the 26th.

  8. In Finland, dick graffiti are rare. We have pussy graffiti instead, which doesn’t seem to be a common thing in any other country.

  10. 1510 – The first written record of a decorated Christmas Tree comes from Riga, Latvia. Men of the local merchants’ guild decorated a tree with artificial roses, danced around it in the marketplace and then set fire to it.

  11. At a certain point in 15 century, we were the largest country in mainland Europe.

  12. Apparently Croatia is the world neanderthal capital.

    Not a huge achievement, some of them are still alive and well.

  13. “Carol of the Bells” is a popular Christmas carol, which is based on the Ukrainian New Year’s song “Shchedryk”

  14. The last person that walked on the Moon, Eugene Cernan, had Slovak father and Czech mother.

  15. Sadly, Azerbaijan is the 49th worst place to be in for queer people in europe. 49th is the last place but, if you flip the list upside down, we are number one 🥳🥳

  16. Romania – I’ve recently returned from Taiwan and realised that people in my country are warmer and kinder than a lot of many other ,food is awesome , a top 5 around the world and my country is beyond beautiful , green forests , salt mines and many mountains , I’ve never took pride in it , I’ve hated it all my life.

  19. Ireland has gone from just about voting for divorce to be legal in 1995 to overwhelming votes in favour of marriage equality and abortion in 2015 and 2018.

  20. We always make the top 10 in per capita alcohol consumption. Partyyyyy

  23. We have special storm surge barriers that can open and close when there’s high water coming in from the North Sea. This was done to lessen the impact on the wild life in the coastal areas.

  24. In Romania we’re not racists/xenophobic… we generally dislike all people. Everyone is 100% safe here. We do not assault people, and we have (I think) zero guns on the street. Also, most of our thieves moved to Western Europe… so you’re free to party! But please be polite (LOOKING AT YOU, BRITS!)

  25. Recently , a farmer plowing a field accidentally discovered an ancient Roman tomb dating back to 2-3 Century CE .

    Such discoveries are surprisingly common in Bulgaria

  27. No matter where you are in Switzerland, youre ALWAYS at a higher altitude than the entirety of Denmark

  28. France tried to buy us in 1867.

    To my infinite happiness, they failed.

  29. Italy – Friuli: our regional flag is the oldest emblem still in current use in Europe, after the flag of Catalonia (since a.d 1077).

  30. In Romania we have the tallest wooden church. And also the canal from the Danube to the Black Sea (the Danube flows in the Black Sea by default but whatever) is the 4th largest in the world, after Suez, Panama and Corinth.

  31. We have the oldest lake in Europe and it’s also one of the deepest. Lake Ohrid is in the southwest of the country and a part of it is shared with Albania. The wildlife is so diverse that there are over 200 endemic species in the lake! Also, on the shore there are some stunning cities and villages.

  32. Fanta was created in Germany during World War II due to a trade embargo that made it hard to get Coca-Cola syrup.

  33. 4 of the deepest known caves in the world are all in Georgia. All four are within the territory that is occupied by Russia sadly so most Goergians have never seen any of them.

  35. In Germany? Fun is not allowed here. It distracts from being efficient

  37. Sweden has got a magazine called Good News Magazine, that only writes about good news. Recent good news are that Gotland (a Swedish island) now is one of the places with most eagles in the world. Good news if you like eagles or if you are an eagle.

  38. Finland has an insanely huge stockpile of pretty much everything from food to petrol to clothes to guns to almost anything, in case of emergencies. It is called ”Huoltovarmuuskeskus” (eng. ”National Emergency Supply Agency”). It is scattered around the country for various reasons, but if put together in one place it would be so huge, that not a single seaport or airport in the world could house all of its content. But the funny thing is, most Finnish people didn’t know it even existed prior to Covid.

    When Covid hit Europe really hard in 2020, most countries were struggling for PPE, but Finland was already so well prepared because of totally unrelated reasons (read: totally not war against Norway), that if they hadn’t discarded millions of facemasks just a few years prior due to them being outdated or whatevs, our healthcare could’ve survived the entire pandemic with the PPE that we already had in stock.

  39. Slovak language is considered to be a Slavic esperanto. Means that you have the best chance to understand other Slavics with it.

  40. Turkey is one of three countries worldwide (i can’t remember the others, but i remember they were not in europe) that have a positive tree balance in the last few years.

    there actually have been more trees planted than ripped out or cut, and there have been big closed/connected areas being reforested. this is amongst the most positive things that humans can do against climate change (next to reducing emissions obviously).

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