AIBU to ask for you to pick any country and share an interesting fun fact about it?

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I love learning about countries around the world, i am unable to explore physically due to covid so I would love to learn more fun interesting facts that you would kindly share!

Heres mine!

In Vietnam it is offensive to cross your fingers in a certain way, it is seen as an obscene gesture, akin to raising your middle finger and saying“F* You! It is also used to call people a derogatory name! Photo attached !

I will add more shortly =)

Whats yours?

Switzerland - women only gained the right to vote in 1971.

Not fun but interesting!

In SA you "hold thumbs" to wish for good luck in the same way we cross our fingers.

10% of Finland is lake

Bolivia has a navy but no coastline. They lost it to Chile in a war in 1904, but use the navy to patrol inland lakes and rivers, in the hope they get the coastline back one day.

There are more Albanians living outside Albania than there are living in Albania.

Mauritius. DH is half Mauritian and I have visited once. A place of extremes of affluence and poverty. Some stunning scenery, tropical climate and interesting place names eg Flic en Flac, Pamplemousses. Several languages spoken, French, English and Creole. The home of the extinct dodo. Sorry, that was several facts!

In Japan, about 98% of all adoptions are for adults, usually men between 20 and 30.

@unchienandalusia we used to say holding thumbs in this country for good luck. It was in lots of books I read, although was never said to me, so I still.sometimes do it.

In Slovenia, there is a town just down the road from Ljubljana airport that is (or used to be) called 'The Red Town' because everywhere was covered in red-brown iron-smelting byproducts belched out by the foundry chimneys. Nice, eh ? This was over thirty years ago so I hope matters have improved.

KFC has become a Christmas tradition in Japan.

The book Anne of Green Gables is extremely popular in Japan and they have even built a replica house as a tourist attraction.

There are no roundabouts on roads in the USA

Iceland has no trains

There are 44 letters in the Hungarian alphabet. These include gy, sz, cs, and the vowels with various accents on them. I impressed my dh with that fact when I first met him

Liechtenstein is the world's largest producer of false teeth.

Israel's top export is diamonds.

There are only 18 letters in the Irish language. It doesn't have have J K Q V W X Y or Z. The vowels can be accented to elongate the sound.

Argentina.
The current pope, and the first from the Americas, Pope Francis, used to work as a nightclub bouncer in Buenos Aires.

Cyprus has the last divided capital in the world.

@Miggymoggymugwumps

There are no roundabouts on roads in the USA

That's not actually true... There aren't many, but I can think of at least 2 where I used to live, so I assume there must be others. They're called rotary junctions if I remember rightly.

Zimbabwe has 16 official languages.

In Estonia a popular pastime is group swings. They have giant swings that lots of adults stand on at the same time.

In Estonia a popular pastime is group swings. They have giant swings that lots of adults stand on at the same time.

As any Geordie will tell you, these are called Shuggy Boats - these used to be popular at seaside fairgrounds.

Another Liechtenstein one, it’s the only double-land-locked country in Europe.

France and Brazil share a border.