Pointless Facts About Your Country

[Marty]

SCOTLAND

• Christmas Was Banned for 400 years until the 1950s
  
• We Call New Years Eve “Hogmanay” and you won’t find a better party anywhere in the world.
  
• Our National Animal is a Unicorn...which is just as existent of our Football World Cup or Euro hopes.
  
• We have the most redheads in the World.
  
• We also have the worlds tallest hedge (massive claim to fame for us)
  
• We also have the UFO capital of the World with the most sightings of UFO’s
  
  And a not so pointless fact we invented the TV, Lightbulb and telephone. Your welcome
  
  Oh let’s not forgot the UN declared as the most violent developed country in the world. With my City being the murder capital of Europe.
  
  So to some it up we are all ginger angry people that don’t celebrate Christmas and our football is shit.
  

[Archer]

Turkey

• Our national anthem didn't have music until the 1940's
  

• Our oldest political party was founded before Turkey
  

• We've had three coups, two memorandums and six coup attempts
  

• Turkey was one of the first countries to develop domestic warplanes(In 1925)
  

• Turkey gave women the right to vote earlier than most countries including Canada, France and Switzerland(1930 for local elections, 1934 for national)
  

• Turkey(Or rather the Ottoman Empire) was the first country to legalise homosexual acts, in 1823
  

• We invented yoghurt not Greeks or Bulgarians
  

Edits:

• Turks didn't have surnames until 1934
  

• Turkey is the only Middle Eastern country to use the Latin alphabet
  

• Literacy rate was only 5% when we were founded
  

[kakcraft]

weed and prostitution ayyyy!! -the netherlands

[Jonas]

Denmark

• We invented Lego
  
• Denmark's flag is the oldest state flag in the world
  
• The Danish monarchy is the oldest continuing monarchy in the world and has existed for over 1,000 years
  
• We're the happiest country in the world
  
• We're the least corrupt country in the world, together with New Zealand
  
• Denmark has the oldest amusement park in the world (Bakken)
  
• Health care and education is completely free
  

[Emil]

An old law from around the 17th century allows you to beat up Swedes who are crossing over the Øresund strait when it's frozen, because a Swedish army crossed over to Copenhagen during an especially cold winter.
The law doesn't really work anymore as there's newer laws that overwrite this obviously.

The Danish Realm is technically the 12th largest country in the world. If you exclude Greenland, we're the 130th largest country.

From 1513 to 1972, every single one of our monarchs were called either Christian or Frederick. This was interrupted by our current queen and will be resumed by her heir who will be Frederick the 10th.

[Create]

England
1. Big Ben does not refer to the clock, but actually the bell.
2. London has been called Londonium, Ludenwic, and Ludenburg in the past.
3. French was the official language for about 300 years
4. The shortest war against England was with Zanzibar in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
5. There is nowhere in Britain that is more than 74.5 miles from the sea.
6. The first telephone directory published in England contained 25 names.
7. While the Great Fire of London was largely destructive, the casualty rate was just 8.
8. The first hot chocolate store opened in London.
9. There are over 300 languages spoken in England.
10. The English drink more tea than anyone else in the world.
11. In the Medieval Times, animals can be put on trial for crimes (and be sentenced to death!)
12. “The Star Spangled Banner” (the American national anthem) was created by an Englishman.
13. “Pygg” used to mean “clay” in olden day English. People kept their coins in clay jars that were called “pygg jars,” which have evolved into what we currently call piggy banks.
14. Gargoyles were originally used as drain pipes!
15. Buckingham Palace has its own police station.
16. Chickens outnumber humans in England.

[Panda]

IRELAND (REPUBLIC OF)

• The flag of Ireland (Green | White | Orange), Green stands for the catholic, orange for protestants and the white stands for the peace between them.
  

• Ireland is the only country in the world to have a musical instrument (Harp) as it's national symbol.
  

• IRA (Irish Republican Army) used to be called the IRB (Irish Republican Brotherhood).
  

• St. Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland and Nigeria.
  

• It's Derry not Londonderry.
  

[dawson270500]

U.K
1. Back in the 1850 the British Empire Stretched 20% of Globe
2. The least safe job in the UK is been the monarch, with currently a 98% mortality rate with at work.
3. In Europe only Finland and Ireland have a higher heart attack rate than the UK
4. Our National dish this the curry Chicken Tikka Masala, an entirely British creation and never heard of in India
5. Prince William once paid £320 for Kate Middleton at a Slave Auction
6. Big Ben is not the Clock, its actually the Bell
7. We Drink 165 Million Cups of Tea a Day
8. Its Illegal to import haggis from the U.k to the U.s Due to old food standard laws
9. James Bonds Codename of 007 is inspired by a Bus Route the author got on to get into Town
10. By Law there has to be 6 Ravens in the grounds of the Tower of London, for some reason

[Faustin]

CANADA

1. Canada has the longest coastline in the world
2. Canada shares the longest border in the world
3. Canada is the second largest country in the world
4. Canada fought a brief 8 day war against Croatia, with decisive victory
5. Canada is gud yes

[Falc]

England

Drug addicts and tramps with shit weather