1. Britain is the only country in the world which doesn’t have the country’s name in its postage stamps.
2. In York, excluding Sundays, it is perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow. This law has never been repealed.
3. The UK's official name as a UN member is the longest in the world. The United kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Shortened to the UK.
4. Nowhere in Britain is more than 74½ miles from the sea.
5. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
Give Five Interesting Facts About Your Country
AvaC
2011/09/17 02:55:35
My country is: Trinidad and Tobago
1. The steelpan is our national instrument.
2. Wearing camouflage clothing is against the law in Trinidad and Tobago, as is topless or nude bathing at public beaches. Wearing nothing but a bathing suit in public is also an offense, at any time other than during Carnival or when you are at the beach. Men should wear shirts and women, skirts etc.
3. Trinidad is an oil producing nation, and the fifth largest producer of natural gas in the world supplying two thirds of all LNG imported into the USA.
4. Tobago was the location of the book ''Robin Crusoe'' by Daniel Defoe and is also believed to be the place that Robert Louis Stevenson had in mind when he wrote ''Treasure Island''.
5. Our Carnival is considered ''The Greatest Show on Earth''.
Your turn. Don't forget to name your birth country! :)
1. The steelpan is our national instrument.
2. Wearing camouflage clothing is against the law in Trinidad and Tobago, as is topless or nude bathing at public beaches. Wearing nothing but a bathing suit in public is also an offense, at any time other than during Carnival or when you are at the beach. Men should wear shirts and women, skirts etc.
3. Trinidad is an oil producing nation, and the fifth largest producer of natural gas in the world supplying two thirds of all LNG imported into the USA.
4. Tobago was the location of the book ''Robin Crusoe'' by Daniel Defoe and is also believed to be the place that Robert Louis Stevenson had in mind when he wrote ''Treasure Island''.
5. Our Carnival is considered ''The Greatest Show on Earth''.
Your turn. Don't forget to name your birth country! :)
1. We mined the largest diamond in the world not far from where I live and then cut it up and gave the largest chunk to the queen of England for a centre piece for her crown (talk about sucking up).
2. We are the only country that had major racial issues and solved them without a civil war.
3. We are the only country that has won the Rugby world cup twice and we were only re-admitted to the international rugby in 1995.
4. We have one of the world's richest floral regions...the Cape Floral Kingdom within our borders and nowhere else.
5. We have Nelson Mandela
Birth Country - New Zealand
Australia
1. It's illegal to wear hot pink pants after midday Sunday.
2. If you ask someone how they are, they're more likely to tell you how they aren't (E.g. not bad, not good).
3. We can legally eat the animals on our own coat of arms.
4. Even our cutest looking animals can kill you (especially koalas).
5. No one drinks Fosters Beer.
New Zealand.
1. Richard Pearce was the first to fly a heavier than air machine, a good 9 months before the Wright Brothers.
2. New Zealand has more bookshops per head than any other country.
3. New Zealand has two official national anthems, God Save the Queen and God Defend New Zealand, which is usually sung in both English and Moari as "Aotearoa".
4. Flip flops are called jandals and swimwear are called togs.
5. There are no hobbits.
It was not discovered by Columbus.
It was not founded as a "christian" nation.
The founding fathers were the elite and only 37% of the population were represented in the first congress.
What is now the state of Maine was exporting timber for the masts of British ships 100 years before Columbus sailed to discover the new world.
The Vikings had a settlement here before 1000ad.
2. The Australian climate ranges from sweltering tropics in the far North, seering deserts in the centre, temperate zones around the mid north and south coasts, to pretty well sub-antarctic in the South (Tasmania).
3. Australia is now a great melting pot of races and nationalities but, apart from those of more recent arrivals, our accent varies very little from state to state; so little that the differences are unnoticable even to many homegrown Aussies.
4. Despite our small population (approx. 23 million), we are a major force to be reckoned with in sport, the arts - especially acting (both screen and theatre) - and military prowess.
5 Despite the massive size of our land, we are a very tight-knit population - scratch one of us and we all bleed. So beware!
2. Actor William Shatner, known as "Captain Jame T. Kirk" of Star Trek fame, is from Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3.Canada has more inland lakes and rivers than any other country in the world.
4.The Big Nickel located in Sudbury Ontario is the world's largest coin. It is a giant reproduction of a 1951 Canadian nickel, measuring 9 meters (30 feet) in diameter.
5.The 1964 animated TV movie “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was filmed in Japan, but the entire soundtrack was recorded in a studio in Toronto, Ontario.
1. My home country is known as "The Land of a Thousand Lakes" (even though the actual number of lakes is in tens of thousands).
2. Our national bird is the Whooper swan.
3. In pretty much every residential building there is at least one sauna.
4. Our country once resembled the shape of a dancing lady, before we lost some areas in the Moscow Armistice.
5. Most people are under the (wrong) assumption that my home country is part of Scandinavia. It is, however, part of Fennoscandia.
Honestly I'm a bit worn out with all the never ending fixation on my country, so I'll let someone else 'beat their chest about how great we are'... but I will thank you for sharing those tidbits about your homeland...
Many I was not aware of.
1. In Scotland you are on the wrong side of the law if you are drunk and in possession of a cow.
2.Up until 1752 Britain used the Julian calendar and New Years day was on 25th March.
3.There are over 30,000 John Smiths in Britain.
4.Buckingham Palace was built on the site of a notorious brothel.
5.About 25% of Londoners were born outside of the UK and can speak over 300 different languages.
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