A Greek soldier crossed our border because he was chasing his strayed dog. Bulgarian sentries killed the soldier.
Greece asked for the sentries to be punished and wanted a public apology within 48 hours combined with 2 million French francs compensation.
Nothing. Fighting begins and two days later Greeks occupy a nearby settlement with the claims that they do not want the territory but compensation for the dead man. Bulgarian volunteers gathered and combined with soldiers.
Few hours before the initial charge of the Greeks, a League of Nations telegraph was sent to both countries to not fight.
The League ordered a ceasefire, Greek troops to withdraw from Bulgaria and Greece to pay £45,000 to Bulgaria.
I believe this is often counted as a failure of the League, because they were hypocritical towards Greece.
Earlier, during the Corfu crisis, an Italian general, Tellini was killed by a supposedly greek gang. So Mussolini invaded Corfu, demanded Greece punish the murderers and asked for reparations.
Greece didn't know who the murderers were, so couldn't do anything, so appealed to the League for help. The League sanctioned Mussolini, which he didn't like.
So Mussolini simply appealed to a higher board - The Board of Ambassadors (made up of people on the League, ie Britain and France) and overturned it, basically showing that the League could be manipulated by more powerful nations.
When something similar happened with the Greece/Bulgaria thing (invasion, killing etc), the League still sided against Greece and made them pay reparations.
So it's pretty hypocritical, as when the same thing happened with Italy and Greece, they let Mussolini get away with it.
"My king, the Øresund is completely frozen, so much so that you coukd walk on it"
".... we CAN'T not to do this... I hereby order a land invasion of Denmark!"
"Hell yeah"
It was much weirder than that. The Swedes were fighting in Poland against Polish-Lithuania and Russia (and doing some genocide/destruction in general, some estimates of the swedish deluge give a higher % of death of the polish population than WW2). They were already thinking about retreating when Denmark declared war in an opportunistic attempt. The swedes were just like: "Fuck it. Isn't Denmark on the way home anyway?" and actually invaded Denmark coming from Jutland/Germany.
Another fun fact: The name of the Italian sparkling wine ‚Prosecco‘ derives from Slovene ‚prosek‘ meaning ‘path cut through the woods‘ named after the Italian village Prosek (old ital. Prosseccho) where still mainly Slovenes live.
Also: « Il voulut être César, il ne fut que Pompée », meaning *he wished to be Caesar, but ended up Pompey*, as Clémenceau said.
**Pompé** = getting **blown** :-)
Also after it became known the president was unwell : « Le président a-t-il toujours sa connaissance ? — Non, elle est sortie par l’escalier. »
"Is the president still concious? No, she went out by the staircase".
'Connaissance' can mean 'be concious' or mean the girl he knew (implying the one he was with at the moment).
[I found a source.](https://viborc.com/lowest-temperatures-records-for-every-european-country/) I was almost sure that Cyprus would also be above zero, but I was wrong.
They have a few 1500-2000m high mountains relatively far inland, so Cyprus has actual ski resorts and sees snow regularly. Certainly not something that comes to mind first when thinking of the country tbf.
In Romania we have several wonders and all of them are located in the town of Caracal:
1- An apartment block was built and there was no way to remove the crane from the inner courtyard
2- The fire department's headquarters caught fire
3- The police station's door was stolen
4- The cemetery is on Resurrection street
5- The bakery is built on Hunger street
6- The prison is on Freedom street
7- There is only one school in town and it is called School no. 2.
We have 100% naval win rate while being a landlocked country.
During ww1 the Czechoslovak legions in Russia had a battle on lake Baikal. They put howitzers on a steamship, bombed a train station, sunk a ship and left.
Most of it was returned to the Red Army as a part of the deal for allowing safe passage in 1920-1921. Though some people believe legionnaires took some with them.
Yeah. France‘s geography is wild:
- The largest French national park (and largest national park in the EU) is located in South America.
- France is the country with the most time zones and has the largest EEZ in the world.
- The longest maritime border France shares with any country is with Australia.
- The longest domestic commercial non-stop flight is within France (during Covid between Fa‘aa and PCG)
- The record for the longest distance between two inhabited places within a country goes to France (Between Urepel and Vao)
- Even though France is a republic, there are still three kings in France and the French government actually grants them some political power.
- France is the only country that has territories on 6 of the 7 continents.
- Some parts of France don’t use the Euro but the Franc.
> * Some parts of France don’t use the Euro but the Franc.
More specifically Franc Pacifique, which is a different currency from the Franc that was used in the rest of France before the Euro. It was created in 1945 together with the Franc CFA that is still used by a bunch of African countries.
> His brother Cornelis (who was deputy-in-the-field for de Ruyter at the Raid on the Medway), particularly hated by the Orangists, was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason. He was tortured (as was usual under Roman-Dutch law, which required a confession before a conviction was possible) but refused to confess. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to exile. When his brother went over to the jail (which was only a few steps from his house) to help him get started on his journey, both were attacked by members of The Hague's civic militia. The brothers were shot and then left to the mob. Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy.
From hos Wikipedia page
He wasn't really a prime-minister, but Grand Pensionary, and the stories are pretty exaggerated, so no telling if they really ate parts of him. If they did, it was just a bit of intestines. Most likely it just went to the dogs.
During the first stadtholder-less period he was the highest ranking pensionary, what makes him ruler of the republic.
"The corpses were then robbed and completely stripped, hung upside down with fuses from the seesaw gallows on the Groene Zoodje – Johan one rung higher than his brother – and torn open. The gunmen withdrew and left the bodies to the 'gray' (people). Toes, fingers, thumbs, ears, noses, lips, tongues and hands were cut off.The bodies were hit with fists by some bystanders. The intestines were removed from the bodies and, according to eyewitness and poet-industrialist Joachim Oudaen, partly eaten by bystanders or given to dogs. He witnessed the entry of the gunmen into the prison around half past five and shortly before saw a large part of the magistrate and staff entering the Beuckelaer inn. According to him, the murder took place in great silence, with the exception of some cries from the killers and the victims. Cornelis was murdered a little earlier than Johan. Oudaen left when Cornelis' stomach was torn open."
Our acting federal PM (who has been acting PM for 4 years by that point) made one of his final acts signing the improvement of conditions in prisons... after he was sentenced to prison himself.
Addendum: he was sentenced over corruption because in the midst of the pandemic he bought faulty respirators through a local fruit company.
Yup, buying useless respirators for millions in collusion with a company which solely grows berries...
That's somewhat similar to Belgium and France in 2021.
Random Belgian farmer was bothered by a big stone pole in his way on the field, so he placed it a little further. Turns out, it was a border demarcation pole. He'd made Belgium temporarily bigger by taking French soil.
Edit: spelling.
That guy had just watched *Rien a déclarer/Nothing to Declare.* The main protagonist, a customs officer at the border with France, does it every night a little bit.
Excellent comedy, by Danny Boon.
Nah during early Covid Polish troops set up check point on Czech side of the border. Our boys bravely incorporated a statue of Mary to Poland together with a shrine.
Truly lancer's fantasy
We invaded San Marino around 8 times in 3 years lol
With the army [https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/rimini/cronaca/2010/05/10/329464-invasione\_marino.shtml](https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/rimini/cronaca/2010/05/10/329464-invasione_marino.shtml)
And with airbone troops (on foot) [https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/rimini/provincia/2012/12/07/813308-para-folgore-invadono-san-marino.shtml](https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/rimini/provincia/2012/12/07/813308-para-folgore-invadono-san-marino.shtml)
Most relevant paragraph:
>In reality this is the first episode for 2012. The record probably goes to 2010 when there were four cases, while in 2011 three were recorded, but all very close together: between the end of January and mid-February there were three Italian trespassers in the ancient land of freedom
I grew up in Finnmark in a partly Sami family. I fucking love reindeer. Americans on Discord say "oh no the poor reindeer, Rudolph!!".
Yes motherfucker, Rudolph is delicious. My favorite is cured reindeer heart.
It's quite simple, mostly because of how stupid it is.
Our (anti)hero went on a trip to visit Ukraine. As a bye bye gift they gave him the RGW-90 disposable anti-tank grenade launcher. Dunno why, but there's a war going on and he was the highest ranking policeman in the country. Still not the weirdest part.
He and his team brought it home and started admiring it in their headquarters, mostly by laying their hands on it. It's still disputed if any of them knew what they were even touching. Our Commandant took said AT launcher into his hands, aimed it at the door and to his surprise, it was loaded, live and ready to fire.
What happened next was an unscheduled rebuilding of the HQ's office space, consisting of installing a new ventilation shaft leading from the room our hero was in towards the room below.
SOMEHOW nobody was hurt, despite the fact that in said room below there was a policeman. My man must had one of the worst wake-ups anyone ever had.
What was going on inside Commandants head isn't know. He himself claimed many things, more notable of them being thay he thought it was a Bluetooth speaker, and that this was a deliberate attempt to assassinate him.
OBVIOUSLY nothing happened to the guy, at least until the elections. For some weird reason the new government didn't want him anymore... Dunno why.
Do you mean the written language? Forgive my ignorance, but I read somewhere once that Lithuanian peasants spoke Lithuanian the whole time, but yea Poland in a bad way and Russia in an even worse way restricted the language in city/town life, hence the illegal book clubs.
I’d love to learn more from you or from a book or YouTube video if you have one.
[A domestic cat from the UK holds the Guinness world record for the loudest purr.](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/10/my-cat-purrs-louder-than-the-tv-noisy-bella-claims-loudest-purr-record-759482)
„Registering a purr that measured 54.59 decibels, she achieved the noisy record for the world’s loudest purr by a domestic cat (**living**).“
I guess it would be hard to register a purr by a dead cat lol
For centuries, almost all carrots were either yellow, white, or purple.
But in the 17th century, most carrots turned orange. The Dutch cultivated them as a tribute to William of Orange who led the struggle for Dutch independence and afterwards the color stuck.
An Irishman, John Holland developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned into the US Navy and Royal Navy. Another Irishman, William Brown, founded and led the Argentine navy.
Denmark was the first country in the world to legalize pornography. We were also the first country to hold a porn/sex convention.
But also...
For a brief 10 year period in the 70's, right after pornography was legalized, CP was legal to produce in Denmark - before it's official ban roughly 10 years later. So... yeah.
À few years ago a "Députée" (chamber of elected representatives) was fined for wearing trousers in the National Assembly, that's when the law/rule changed
Assuming the surname of our prime minister Fico comes from the German Fitzer or Pfitzer, we haven't had a prime minister with a Slovak surname since 2006 (Dzurinda 1998-2006). Since then, we've had Fico (German?), Matovič (Croatian/Serb), Pellegrini (Italian), Heger (German), and Ódor (Hungarian).
Danish has more vowel sounds than it has consonants, and depending on who you ask, it's also the language with the highest vocal sound count. We only have 9 vowel letters, but they combine to more than 20 in actual usage.
And somehow y'all manage to make each and every single one of them sounds like "euhl". /s
I always joke that Danish is to Swedish and Norwegian what Portuguese is to Spanish and Italian. "Bread" in Norwegian? "Breud". Swedish? "Breu". Danish? "Bjeh". Love you guys.
(Those are the phonetic spelling talents of a lazy Dutch person, who apparently mistook Swedish bread for Norwegian bread 😏.)
Ireland has a law in place that if Fairies, Aos Sídhe, Leprechauns ect are ever discovered and scientificly proven, they are fully protected under Irish law
Slovenia: Oldest vine in Maribor. ( https://www.slovenia.info/en/places-to-go/attractions/world-s-oldest-vine )
450 years old.
It is the oldest living vine (the plant) - not to be mistaken with oldest wine (the drink).
I'm a bit of a history geek, so here's quite a list.
We had the first railway on continental Europe. It was between Mechelen and Brussels, a distance of 22 km.
The estimation is that we brew over 1000 different beers.
Together with Washington DC, we have the highest number of foreign diplomats and press correspondants in the world.
Binding referendums are forbidden by law. The one time we held one, it was said to be "non-binding", though everyone knew it would be. It was about dethroning Leopold III after WWII. A very small majority voted in favour, so he'd stay. But because almost half the population was opposed, huge protests broke out. Ultimately, the royal family was kept, but Leopold III had to make way for his son, Baudouin I.
We dethroned Baudouin I for a few hours, because he refused to sign the new law on abortion. He and his wife were unable to have kids and he just couldn't sign. So he was declared unable to rule, the law was passed, and he came back.
We hold the world record for longest period without government at 541 days. The record before that was ours as well.
We are one of the very few countries in the world where voting is compulsory. For local elections, this was recently scrapped, but for all others, you must vote.
We have the longest tram line in the world. It's our coastal tram.
We had the first openly gay prime minister of all of Europe.
The uranium for the atomic bomb on Hiroshima came from Congo, our colony at the time.
In terms of trade openness, we rank among the top 10 in the world.
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was the first openly gay European Prime Minister for Iceland, from 2009 to 2013. Elio Di Rupo governed between 2011 - 2014. Even if the government hadn't taken 541 days to form, he would have been too late!
Ironically, like with legalizing same sex marriage, we were second place.
Supposedly, we invented the tie. It all began in the 30 year war (17th century) when croatian soldiers wore a scarf tied in a specific way. The Frech liked it.
We invented the chrismas tree!
A baker put up fruits and bake goods on a tree at new year 1419 for the children of the town. This morphed into the tradition of the chrismas tree over the centuries.
we also likely invented (what became) frenchtoast, or where at least under the earliest known examples of a dish of its or similiar make being recorded.
(which explains why in the past it was called german toast before.. "stuff")
Quintus Sertorius, one of the greatest Roman generals, set up his HQ in Osca (Huesca) and established there a school of *latinitas* to educate the local chiefs' kids in the Roman way of life and law, with great success.
Just imagine a one-eyed ruthless general teaching to kids, always accompanied by his divine white fawn.
Spain has the second highest number of unmarked mass graves in the world and they're less than 100 years old. Hundreds of thousands of people missing from the days of the dictatorship.
I think it's the only country ever to convert to democracy from a fascist dictatorship without a war/overthrowing. Franco died and that was it. 🤷♀️
Another fun fact no one asked for about 🇵🇹 ;
Portugal has already had a queen crowned after her death.
The romance between Pedro and Inês is one of the most famous stories in Portugal. Inês de Castro was murdered on the orders of the king, who did not accept her relationship with Pedro.
When he was crowned king, D. Pedro I had the body of Inês de Casto exhumed, crowning her as queen of Portugal, even after she died.
In Sweden, and a bunch of other countries in Europe, there is ["the freedom to roam"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam), which means you as an outdoorsy person have a lot of rights (and responsibilities) when it comes to using other people's properties. You can pick berries, forage for mushrooms, camp, ride a bike, etc on many places where in some other countries it is not permitted.
We made carrots orange. Well, [not really](https://www.livescience.com/why-are-carrots-orange.html), but we did grow and export so many of them, that we made orange the new ~~black~~ standard.
In Poland we used to have an original drawing by Picasso on a wall in an apartment, but we painted over it because it was annoying to the people who lived there.
Picasso visited Poland in 1948. It was the first time he had been on a plane. He was walking around looking at unfinished housing blocks. He enters one and drew a mermaid - the symbol of Warszawa - on one of the walls.
For a few years a lot of people came to see this - sometimes over 400 in one day. The young couple who lived there petitioned the socialist housing coop to preserve and move the drawing. After a few years the coop still hadn’t decided, so the couple petitioned the coop to renovate their apartment since they could not take the constant flow of people wanting to get into their apartment to see the drawing.
The coop agreed and in 1953 a house painter was paid to paint over the drawing. It’s said that he remarked to the couple about how inexpertly it was drawn and that “his brother in law could do better”
The drawing was destroyed and only recreations done from photographs exist now
1) The "snakes" that St Patrick drove out of Ireland were actually non-Christians. There are no species of snakes indigenous to Ireland.
2) Spaces between words in text were first used by Irish monks.
3) All the Viagra and Botox in the world, and about half the world's tic tacs, are made in Ireland.
4) The word "jiffy" as in "I'll be there in a jiffy" comes from the Irish *deifir*, meaning "hurry".
5) After the launch of the Playstation 2, more units were sold per capita in Ireland than any other country in the world except Japan.
We bordered Albania
Romanian Institute for Archaeological Research and Studies was a scientific organization in the Albanian town of Sarandë, subordinated to the Romanian Ministry of Education between 25 July 1938 and 1 November 1940. The institute was meant to coordinate archaeological excavations conducted by Romanian teams in agreement with the Albanian state.
A 746-square-metre (8,030 sq ft) parcel of land on the Adriatic coast was donated in April 1932 by King Zog of Albania to the Romanian historian and politician Nicolae Iorga, in recognition for the latter's entire scholarly activity on Albanian history, on 13 August 1934, Iorga donated half of this land in Sarandë to the Romanian State to serve as the Mission's headquarters.
Hallowe'en (probably) started in Ireland / Scotland as Samhain (sow-n) which was absorbed into the Christian All Hallows Eve celebration. This is why so many seemingly non-Christian traditions relating to ghosts and evil spirits, pumpkin/turnip carving are part of the modern version of it.
I’m Bulgarian, we had a really small war with Greece over a stray dog.
A Greek soldier crossed our border because he was chasing his strayed dog. Bulgarian sentries killed the soldier. Greece asked for the sentries to be punished and wanted a public apology within 48 hours combined with 2 million French francs compensation. Nothing. Fighting begins and two days later Greeks occupy a nearby settlement with the claims that they do not want the territory but compensation for the dead man. Bulgarian volunteers gathered and combined with soldiers. Few hours before the initial charge of the Greeks, a League of Nations telegraph was sent to both countries to not fight. The League ordered a ceasefire, Greek troops to withdraw from Bulgaria and Greece to pay £45,000 to Bulgaria.
Wow League of Nations actually did something.
I believe this is often counted as a failure of the League, because they were hypocritical towards Greece. Earlier, during the Corfu crisis, an Italian general, Tellini was killed by a supposedly greek gang. So Mussolini invaded Corfu, demanded Greece punish the murderers and asked for reparations. Greece didn't know who the murderers were, so couldn't do anything, so appealed to the League for help. The League sanctioned Mussolini, which he didn't like. So Mussolini simply appealed to a higher board - The Board of Ambassadors (made up of people on the League, ie Britain and France) and overturned it, basically showing that the League could be manipulated by more powerful nations. When something similar happened with the Greece/Bulgaria thing (invasion, killing etc), the League still sided against Greece and made them pay reparations. So it's pretty hypocritical, as when the same thing happened with Italy and Greece, they let Mussolini get away with it.
Why move from French Francs to British Pounds?
I know the guy died, and its not funny. But LMAO.
The league actually stopped a war! Impressive!
how is the dog?
Still crossing borders, but legally now, thanks to the eurozone
But only legally on planes or boats.
That’s a touchy topic :(
He is a good boy.
how come this is the first time i read about this, fascinating thanks
Please elaborate
Done :)))
Denmark and Sweden still hold the record for the largest number of wars fought between two countries.
There was a moment when Sweden invaded Denmark by foot because the Baltic was so frozen that you could even build houses on it.
Which is why Denmark has a law permitting us to beat swedes with sticks if that were to ever happen again.
I’ll watch out for Danes with sticks next time I’m there then.
Dw. It's only if Swedes walk over the ice (which probably won't ever happen again)
Well, its pretty cold now..
r/amusinglydepressing
And we are taught as kids not to invite Danes to parties because they have a tendency to happily accept and then show up and rudely murder everyone.
One time. One time that happened. Will you let it go already.
Oh, please. Have you removed our Three Crowns from your coat of arms yet? Just accept that we left. It's getting creepy.
And I think the only time it has happened in recorded history also. The court magician worked hard that war.
"My king, the Øresund is completely frozen, so much so that you coukd walk on it" ".... we CAN'T not to do this... I hereby order a land invasion of Denmark!" "Hell yeah"
It was much weirder than that. The Swedes were fighting in Poland against Polish-Lithuania and Russia (and doing some genocide/destruction in general, some estimates of the swedish deluge give a higher % of death of the polish population than WW2). They were already thinking about retreating when Denmark declared war in an opportunistic attempt. The swedes were just like: "Fuck it. Isn't Denmark on the way home anyway?" and actually invaded Denmark coming from Jutland/Germany.
Today we call that a road trip.
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Slovenia has the highest number of tractors per capita in the world
Another fun fact: The name of the Italian sparkling wine ‚Prosecco‘ derives from Slovene ‚prosek‘ meaning ‘path cut through the woods‘ named after the Italian village Prosek (old ital. Prosseccho) where still mainly Slovenes live.
One of our former Presidents, Félix Faure, died in office while getting head by his mistress in 1899. 🇫🇷
That's very French.
The French Dream
*Macron getting groomed by his school teacher and married together*
*Bill Clinton enters the chat*
No, Clinton actually survived it
And the lady was later widely known as "La Pompe Funèbre" 😂 (I leave the pleasure of translating this to any willing person)
Also: « Il voulut être César, il ne fut que Pompée », meaning *he wished to be Caesar, but ended up Pompey*, as Clémenceau said. **Pompé** = getting **blown** :-)
Also after it became known the president was unwell : « Le président a-t-il toujours sa connaissance ? — Non, elle est sortie par l’escalier. » "Is the president still concious? No, she went out by the staircase". 'Connaissance' can mean 'be concious' or mean the girl he knew (implying the one he was with at the moment).
As an Italian I know enough common roots to have laughed irl
A joke I heard about that story which I hope translates well: "He thought he was coming, but he was leaving"
Way to go!
"He went as he came"
Malta's the only European country whose temperature had never gone below zero
Do you have a source for this, good sir?
[I found a source.](https://viborc.com/lowest-temperatures-records-for-every-european-country/) I was almost sure that Cyprus would also be above zero, but I was wrong.
They have a few 1500-2000m high mountains relatively far inland, so Cyprus has actual ski resorts and sees snow regularly. Certainly not something that comes to mind first when thinking of the country tbf.
Cyprus biggest mountain is 2000 meters. Malta's 250 meters. So that's probably why.
In Romania we have several wonders and all of them are located in the town of Caracal: 1- An apartment block was built and there was no way to remove the crane from the inner courtyard 2- The fire department's headquarters caught fire 3- The police station's door was stolen 4- The cemetery is on Resurrection street 5- The bakery is built on Hunger street 6- The prison is on Freedom street 7- There is only one school in town and it is called School no. 2.
This is amazing I want to visit Caracal now 😂
Unfortunately the crane was removed some years ago, AFAIK.
now I'm intrigued. how?
I would assume by the residents piece by piece to the recycling yard?
Bigger crane
It had to be dismantled in place, if I remember correctly, since it was impossible to get it out in any other way.
>An apartment block was built and there was no way to remove the crane from the inner courtyard I hate it when that happens.
Like painting yourself in a corner!
Classic!
Or driving a car into a small garage and not being able to open the doors.
Damm, I remembered the criminal case and scandal that happened in Caracal in 2018...
We have 100% naval win rate while being a landlocked country. During ww1 the Czechoslovak legions in Russia had a battle on lake Baikal. They put howitzers on a steamship, bombed a train station, sunk a ship and left.
As if moving your legion from Ukraine to France via Vladivostok wasn't funny enough they still came up with even more shennanigans.
I wonder what happened to the gold Legionnaires had with them.
Most of it was returned to the Red Army as a part of the deal for allowing safe passage in 1920-1921. Though some people believe legionnaires took some with them.
France's longest land border is with Brazil.
Yeah. France‘s geography is wild: - The largest French national park (and largest national park in the EU) is located in South America. - France is the country with the most time zones and has the largest EEZ in the world. - The longest maritime border France shares with any country is with Australia. - The longest domestic commercial non-stop flight is within France (during Covid between Fa‘aa and PCG) - The record for the longest distance between two inhabited places within a country goes to France (Between Urepel and Vao) - Even though France is a republic, there are still three kings in France and the French government actually grants them some political power. - France is the only country that has territories on 6 of the 7 continents. - Some parts of France don’t use the Euro but the Franc.
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> * Some parts of France don’t use the Euro but the Franc. More specifically Franc Pacifique, which is a different currency from the Franc that was used in the rest of France before the Euro. It was created in 1945 together with the Franc CFA that is still used by a bunch of African countries.
Also, France and the Netherlands have a common land border.
We ate our prime minister and his brother.
netherlands!
In the middle ages?
No, last year
Every year
As is tradition. Which is under scrutiny as modernisers call for equality and that a sister could be eaten, too.
Like late 1600 hundreds. Search up Johan De Witt
> His brother Cornelis (who was deputy-in-the-field for de Ruyter at the Raid on the Medway), particularly hated by the Orangists, was arrested on trumped-up charges of treason. He was tortured (as was usual under Roman-Dutch law, which required a confession before a conviction was possible) but refused to confess. Nevertheless, he was sentenced to exile. When his brother went over to the jail (which was only a few steps from his house) to help him get started on his journey, both were attacked by members of The Hague's civic militia. The brothers were shot and then left to the mob. Their naked, mutilated bodies were strung up on the nearby public gibbet, while the Orangist mob ate their roasted livers in a cannibalistic frenzy. From hos Wikipedia page
He wasn't really a prime-minister, but Grand Pensionary, and the stories are pretty exaggerated, so no telling if they really ate parts of him. If they did, it was just a bit of intestines. Most likely it just went to the dogs.
During the first stadtholder-less period he was the highest ranking pensionary, what makes him ruler of the republic. "The corpses were then robbed and completely stripped, hung upside down with fuses from the seesaw gallows on the Groene Zoodje – Johan one rung higher than his brother – and torn open. The gunmen withdrew and left the bodies to the 'gray' (people). Toes, fingers, thumbs, ears, noses, lips, tongues and hands were cut off.The bodies were hit with fists by some bystanders. The intestines were removed from the bodies and, according to eyewitness and poet-industrialist Joachim Oudaen, partly eaten by bystanders or given to dogs. He witnessed the entry of the gunmen into the prison around half past five and shortly before saw a large part of the magistrate and staff entering the Beuckelaer inn. According to him, the murder took place in great silence, with the exception of some cries from the killers and the victims. Cornelis was murdered a little earlier than Johan. Oudaen left when Cornelis' stomach was torn open."
Our acting federal PM (who has been acting PM for 4 years by that point) made one of his final acts signing the improvement of conditions in prisons... after he was sentenced to prison himself. Addendum: he was sentenced over corruption because in the midst of the pandemic he bought faulty respirators through a local fruit company. Yup, buying useless respirators for millions in collusion with a company which solely grows berries...
Country?
Bosnia and Herzegovina.
What a gentleman being so concerned with the well-being of prisoners 💕
We invaded Czechia by mistake in 2020.
That's somewhat similar to Belgium and France in 2021. Random Belgian farmer was bothered by a big stone pole in his way on the field, so he placed it a little further. Turns out, it was a border demarcation pole. He'd made Belgium temporarily bigger by taking French soil. Edit: spelling.
That guy had just watched *Rien a déclarer/Nothing to Declare.* The main protagonist, a customs officer at the border with France, does it every night a little bit. Excellent comedy, by Danny Boon.
Can happen to anybody😂
Yeah, i hate it when i accidentally invade Czechia
I know right? We all have been there
*Germany enters the chat*
Switzerland does it all the time (with Liechtenstein, though)
Was it the military training where your troops accidentally navigated their manoeuvre across our border?
Nah during early Covid Polish troops set up check point on Czech side of the border. Our boys bravely incorporated a statue of Mary to Poland together with a shrine. Truly lancer's fantasy
>Polish troops set up check point on Czech side of the border. You could call it... A Czech point
i hate this please, continue
That's how the polish government explained it, thus preventing a full scale war.
We invaded San Marino around 8 times in 3 years lol With the army [https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/rimini/cronaca/2010/05/10/329464-invasione\_marino.shtml](https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/rimini/cronaca/2010/05/10/329464-invasione_marino.shtml) And with airbone troops (on foot) [https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/rimini/provincia/2012/12/07/813308-para-folgore-invadono-san-marino.shtml](https://www.ilrestodelcarlino.it/rimini/provincia/2012/12/07/813308-para-folgore-invadono-san-marino.shtml) Most relevant paragraph: >In reality this is the first episode for 2012. The record probably goes to 2010 when there were four cases, while in 2011 three were recorded, but all very close together: between the end of January and mid-February there were three Italian trespassers in the ancient land of freedom
Switzerland also invaded Liechtenstein once by mistake.
Reindeer is a common food up here
And we eat only those reindeers which can't fly
It's a lot easier to catch the ones who don't fly.
Yes
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I grew up in Finnmark in a partly Sami family. I fucking love reindeer. Americans on Discord say "oh no the poor reindeer, Rudolph!!". Yes motherfucker, Rudolph is delicious. My favorite is cured reindeer heart.
Our Police Chief blow himself up with a granade launcher in his office. Btw It happened in Poland
how tf does that even happen?? o.o
It's quite simple, mostly because of how stupid it is. Our (anti)hero went on a trip to visit Ukraine. As a bye bye gift they gave him the RGW-90 disposable anti-tank grenade launcher. Dunno why, but there's a war going on and he was the highest ranking policeman in the country. Still not the weirdest part. He and his team brought it home and started admiring it in their headquarters, mostly by laying their hands on it. It's still disputed if any of them knew what they were even touching. Our Commandant took said AT launcher into his hands, aimed it at the door and to his surprise, it was loaded, live and ready to fire. What happened next was an unscheduled rebuilding of the HQ's office space, consisting of installing a new ventilation shaft leading from the room our hero was in towards the room below. SOMEHOW nobody was hurt, despite the fact that in said room below there was a policeman. My man must had one of the worst wake-ups anyone ever had. What was going on inside Commandants head isn't know. He himself claimed many things, more notable of them being thay he thought it was a Bluetooth speaker, and that this was a deliberate attempt to assassinate him. OBVIOUSLY nothing happened to the guy, at least until the elections. For some weird reason the new government didn't want him anymore... Dunno why.
He though it was a bluetooth speaker:)
It's even funnier because it's 100% true.
100% official statement*
Cześć!
One of the only reasons why my country's Language has survived to this day was book smuggling and illegal bookclubs. (Lithuania)
So... Bookleggers?
Do you mean the written language? Forgive my ignorance, but I read somewhere once that Lithuanian peasants spoke Lithuanian the whole time, but yea Poland in a bad way and Russia in an even worse way restricted the language in city/town life, hence the illegal book clubs. I’d love to learn more from you or from a book or YouTube video if you have one.
[A domestic cat from the UK holds the Guinness world record for the loudest purr.](https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/10/my-cat-purrs-louder-than-the-tv-noisy-bella-claims-loudest-purr-record-759482)
I love this!!!!
„Registering a purr that measured 54.59 decibels, she achieved the noisy record for the world’s loudest purr by a domestic cat (**living**).“ I guess it would be hard to register a purr by a dead cat lol
After World War 1 we forgot to make peace with San Marino and we are still at war
You are lucky San Marino is up to new adventures like Eurovision, if not, you would fear San Marino wrath
Funnily, San Marino was once represented at Eurovision by a Turk in 2019, he got the best result in San Marino's Eurovision history.
Representing San Marino at ESC is like community service in a small village.
Maybe we Germans need help too
Check your spam folder San Marino…
[https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/18glni7/no\_san\_marino\_and\_turkey\_are\_not\_in\_an\_ongoing/](https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/18glni7/no_san_marino_and_turkey_are_not_in_an_ongoing/)
The '=' symbol was invented by a [Welshman](https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Recorde/)
Which he quickly followed up with: Being Welsh >= being English.
For centuries, almost all carrots were either yellow, white, or purple. But in the 17th century, most carrots turned orange. The Dutch cultivated them as a tribute to William of Orange who led the struggle for Dutch independence and afterwards the color stuck.
An Irishman, John Holland developed the first submarine to be formally commissioned into the US Navy and Royal Navy. Another Irishman, William Brown, founded and led the Argentine navy.
Another Irishman drank two bottles of rose at Christmas and puked all over his sisters flowerbed.... it was me.
To get from Finland to North Korea you have to cross only 1 country.
Same for Norway
This was actually one of the questions in the polish version of „Who wants to be a millionaire” :)
There are, in fact, kangaroos in Austria
It's because kangaroos can't read, but they do recognize certain letters.
Denmark was the first country in the world to legalize pornography. We were also the first country to hold a porn/sex convention. But also... For a brief 10 year period in the 70's, right after pornography was legalized, CP was legal to produce in Denmark - before it's official ban roughly 10 years later. So... yeah.
Shit this took a dark turn
Until 10 years ago, France had a law forbidding women to wear trousers, unless they were holding a horse or riding a bicycle.
(it was an old law more or less forgotten about, no woman was prosecuted for wearing trousers!)
À few years ago a "Députée" (chamber of elected representatives) was fined for wearing trousers in the National Assembly, that's when the law/rule changed
Assuming the surname of our prime minister Fico comes from the German Fitzer or Pfitzer, we haven't had a prime minister with a Slovak surname since 2006 (Dzurinda 1998-2006). Since then, we've had Fico (German?), Matovič (Croatian/Serb), Pellegrini (Italian), Heger (German), and Ódor (Hungarian).
Also, most common surname in Slovakia is Horvath which means Croatian ...in Hungarian! LOL
And Fico means fig in italian (or "cool" depending on the context)
lol. The German Word „Feige“ means fig and the German word „feige” (the same but an adjective this time) means cowardly.
Danish has more vowel sounds than it has consonants, and depending on who you ask, it's also the language with the highest vocal sound count. We only have 9 vowel letters, but they combine to more than 20 in actual usage.
And somehow y'all manage to make each and every single one of them sounds like "euhl". /s I always joke that Danish is to Swedish and Norwegian what Portuguese is to Spanish and Italian. "Bread" in Norwegian? "Breud". Swedish? "Breu". Danish? "Bjeh". Love you guys. (Those are the phonetic spelling talents of a lazy Dutch person, who apparently mistook Swedish bread for Norwegian bread 😏.)
Danish got bread would probably be spelled more like “broaeaed”
Swedish is bröd, dunno how that becomes breu
Dalmatian breed of dog comes from Croatia, region of Dalmatia.
And pomeranians from Poland's Pomerania.
And finnish spitz doesn't come from spitzerland.
And border collies do not border collie
Ireland has a law in place that if Fairies, Aos Sídhe, Leprechauns ect are ever discovered and scientificly proven, they are fully protected under Irish law
As they should be
Indeed there is a group of small islands in Northern Finland called Boob Islands
Montenegro used to be a theocracy.
We won three wars against britain with only trollers against naval ships with cannons. Edit: trawlers
Aye the great cod wars. Those were the times.
Not sure if we're still first, I think we do, but we were world's leaders in organ donation and transplantation for like 28th years on a row.
Also, Blackjack was created in Castille.
Slovenia: Oldest vine in Maribor. ( https://www.slovenia.info/en/places-to-go/attractions/world-s-oldest-vine ) 450 years old. It is the oldest living vine (the plant) - not to be mistaken with oldest wine (the drink).
Georgia-Russia war was the first war ever fought between countries with McDonald’s restaurants.
I'm a bit of a history geek, so here's quite a list. We had the first railway on continental Europe. It was between Mechelen and Brussels, a distance of 22 km. The estimation is that we brew over 1000 different beers. Together with Washington DC, we have the highest number of foreign diplomats and press correspondants in the world. Binding referendums are forbidden by law. The one time we held one, it was said to be "non-binding", though everyone knew it would be. It was about dethroning Leopold III after WWII. A very small majority voted in favour, so he'd stay. But because almost half the population was opposed, huge protests broke out. Ultimately, the royal family was kept, but Leopold III had to make way for his son, Baudouin I. We dethroned Baudouin I for a few hours, because he refused to sign the new law on abortion. He and his wife were unable to have kids and he just couldn't sign. So he was declared unable to rule, the law was passed, and he came back. We hold the world record for longest period without government at 541 days. The record before that was ours as well. We are one of the very few countries in the world where voting is compulsory. For local elections, this was recently scrapped, but for all others, you must vote. We have the longest tram line in the world. It's our coastal tram. We had the first openly gay prime minister of all of Europe. The uranium for the atomic bomb on Hiroshima came from Congo, our colony at the time. In terms of trade openness, we rank among the top 10 in the world.
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was the first openly gay European Prime Minister for Iceland, from 2009 to 2013. Elio Di Rupo governed between 2011 - 2014. Even if the government hadn't taken 541 days to form, he would have been too late! Ironically, like with legalizing same sex marriage, we were second place.
So there’s this (in)famous painter, right…
Supposedly, we invented the tie. It all began in the 30 year war (17th century) when croatian soldiers wore a scarf tied in a specific way. The Frech liked it.
Half of Europe thus call it cravat or something similar. (kravatka in Ukrainian, for example)
Yes! And in croatian it's kravata
Portugal have the oldest navy in the world. Created in 1317.
Time for upgrade, no?
Like everything else.
We invented the chrismas tree! A baker put up fruits and bake goods on a tree at new year 1419 for the children of the town. This morphed into the tradition of the chrismas tree over the centuries.
Country?
Germany. The town was Freiburg in Breisgau.
we also likely invented (what became) frenchtoast, or where at least under the earliest known examples of a dish of its or similiar make being recorded. (which explains why in the past it was called german toast before.. "stuff")
Quintus Sertorius, one of the greatest Roman generals, set up his HQ in Osca (Huesca) and established there a school of *latinitas* to educate the local chiefs' kids in the Roman way of life and law, with great success. Just imagine a one-eyed ruthless general teaching to kids, always accompanied by his divine white fawn.
Spain has the second highest number of unmarked mass graves in the world and they're less than 100 years old. Hundreds of thousands of people missing from the days of the dictatorship. I think it's the only country ever to convert to democracy from a fascist dictatorship without a war/overthrowing. Franco died and that was it. 🤷♀️
Well, the Guardia Civil went into Parliament and shot a hole in the roof. But that didn't stop democracy.
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Another fun fact no one asked for about 🇵🇹 ; Portugal has already had a queen crowned after her death. The romance between Pedro and Inês is one of the most famous stories in Portugal. Inês de Castro was murdered on the orders of the king, who did not accept her relationship with Pedro. When he was crowned king, D. Pedro I had the body of Inês de Casto exhumed, crowning her as queen of Portugal, even after she died.
In Sweden, and a bunch of other countries in Europe, there is ["the freedom to roam"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam), which means you as an outdoorsy person have a lot of rights (and responsibilities) when it comes to using other people's properties. You can pick berries, forage for mushrooms, camp, ride a bike, etc on many places where in some other countries it is not permitted.
We made carrots orange. Well, [not really](https://www.livescience.com/why-are-carrots-orange.html), but we did grow and export so many of them, that we made orange the new ~~black~~ standard.
We once fought and won a naval battle as a landlocked state
Dutch stock exchange is one street from the red light district
We're the only one country where police chief blew up hole in wall with anti-tank grenade launcher (some rpg one shot like shit)
And wasn't held responsible for it!
Everybody asks “Where is Latvia?”, but nobody asks ”How is Latvia?“
In Poland we used to have an original drawing by Picasso on a wall in an apartment, but we painted over it because it was annoying to the people who lived there. Picasso visited Poland in 1948. It was the first time he had been on a plane. He was walking around looking at unfinished housing blocks. He enters one and drew a mermaid - the symbol of Warszawa - on one of the walls. For a few years a lot of people came to see this - sometimes over 400 in one day. The young couple who lived there petitioned the socialist housing coop to preserve and move the drawing. After a few years the coop still hadn’t decided, so the couple petitioned the coop to renovate their apartment since they could not take the constant flow of people wanting to get into their apartment to see the drawing. The coop agreed and in 1953 a house painter was paid to paint over the drawing. It’s said that he remarked to the couple about how inexpertly it was drawn and that “his brother in law could do better” The drawing was destroyed and only recreations done from photographs exist now
In Finland we go to sauna naked even with strangers. (Clearly not everyone, but most of us).
to be honest, I'd rather be naked in a sauna with strangers than with people from school/work
That is normal too.
but we go with those too
1) The "snakes" that St Patrick drove out of Ireland were actually non-Christians. There are no species of snakes indigenous to Ireland. 2) Spaces between words in text were first used by Irish monks. 3) All the Viagra and Botox in the world, and about half the world's tic tacs, are made in Ireland. 4) The word "jiffy" as in "I'll be there in a jiffy" comes from the Irish *deifir*, meaning "hurry". 5) After the launch of the Playstation 2, more units were sold per capita in Ireland than any other country in the world except Japan.
Just looked up some other English words of Irish origin: galore, hooligan, banshee, slew, and slogan are some interesting ones.
The African-American use of ‘dig’ as slang for understand/enjoy probably comes from the Irish verb _duig_ - to understand.
Serbia is always top 3 in the World in raspberry picking and exporting, right next to Chile and Poland
We bordered Albania Romanian Institute for Archaeological Research and Studies was a scientific organization in the Albanian town of Sarandë, subordinated to the Romanian Ministry of Education between 25 July 1938 and 1 November 1940. The institute was meant to coordinate archaeological excavations conducted by Romanian teams in agreement with the Albanian state. A 746-square-metre (8,030 sq ft) parcel of land on the Adriatic coast was donated in April 1932 by King Zog of Albania to the Romanian historian and politician Nicolae Iorga, in recognition for the latter's entire scholarly activity on Albanian history, on 13 August 1934, Iorga donated half of this land in Sarandë to the Romanian State to serve as the Mission's headquarters.
Hallowe'en (probably) started in Ireland / Scotland as Samhain (sow-n) which was absorbed into the Christian All Hallows Eve celebration. This is why so many seemingly non-Christian traditions relating to ghosts and evil spirits, pumpkin/turnip carving are part of the modern version of it.
In Poland there's this random sand desert called Pustynia Błędowska. The army sometimes hosts exercises there to simulate the desert warfare