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Hey Pandas, What’s A Weird Fact About Your Country You’ve Found On The Internet? (Closed)
So I came across this article and most of the facts about Europe are false. Especially, this one about The Netherlands is so weird: "In Sweden and the Netherlands, there are no curtains on the windows."
Huh? Who comes up with these "facts"?
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Germany:
There was a warning that people might run around naked here.
Yes, we do have areas where being naked is allowed, and I think we're also a bit more easygoing about it - but it's not like people run around in the streets being naked.
Guess my country. We have an enormous population of highly gullible people.
that the french love making revolution. most of the french are against revolution. as we are aware it leads to dictatorship
America:
In Alabama, its illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church… its also illegal to have an ice-cream cone in your back pocket in Kentucky.
There's also a state where it's illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head. Can't remember which one though
This isn’t the whole US, just Connecticut, but pickles must bounce. Yes, you read that right, pickles must bounce because 2 guys were selling pickles that didn’t bounce and were “unfit for human consumption.” This was back in 1948 btw.
This is serious. Have you ever had a pickle that didn't bounce?
That our official flag ratio is 13:15, almost but not quite square… You know who else uses a 13:15 flag ratio? NOBODY!
According to law "it is illegal to harass ,annoy ,or otherwise bother Bigfoot"
That we only drink tea, and are obsessed with the Royal Family.
There are around 5,000 commercial airplanes flying over the my country at any given time
Nigeria drinks more Guinness by percentage than we do.
In 1659, the then Massachusetts Bay Colony made any practice that was Christmas-like was illegal, for punishments ranging from a 5-shilling fine to 30-shilling fine.
UK
Unfortunately for ladies, an obscure nineteenth-century English law made it illegal for woman to eat chocolate after getting on a bus.
In England it is a criminal offence to stick a postage stamp to an envelope upside down.
One in eight people in the United States has been employed by McDonald's.
We had to rename our Fairy Penguins to Little Penguins because people thought fairy was a homophobic slur. Even though it referred to fairies, the supernatural creature.
Some ignorant American people say we always surrender... Actually, my country has the most prestigious and impressive military history of... Well... History.
Poland:
We all have square heads. (I do lmao)
Everything, and I mean everything is potato
You don’t have a chicken?
And your country is represented by a circle with the upside down Polish flag with eyes :)
We had vampires...
I just found out that in my country(Portugal) there's NO RUNNING WATER. I was shocked. How did i not notice that!!
In Fredonia NY it's illegal for women to wear a red dress in the park on Sundays
That Australia is a dystopian country where we are all locked up 24/7. ROTFFL.
I read and I don't know if it is true,but I read in South Carolina it is unlawful to get a tattoo on the head, face or neck