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Here Are Some Of My Facts That I Tweeted About Countries All Over The World (50 Pics)
From mid-September to mid-October of 2020, I tweeted a fact about every country in the world on my Twitter account, @FactBuffet.
Why did I do it? Well, partly due to COVID-related boredom but also a burning desire to spread positive information about the world during a time when people are so isolated from (and even disliking towards) other countries. It turns out that every country in the world has interesting and admirable tidbits.
Here are 50 of the facts I tweeted. Prepare to have your minds blown and to add a couple of items to your Bucket List.
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well yeah, when you have experience you know how to do things better, look at South Korea and Taiwan, they had SARS years ago, so they knew how to deal with this one. Death Tolls leads to learning how to prevent it again. The issue is when you havent faced it before, how you deal with it, especially given different political, infrastructure, geography, etc from different countries that makes it hard to take the plans of one and replicate it in another.
Unfortunately, these extremely busy women are still expected to take on the full load of a stay at home wife and mother. Socially, husbands are expected to not help, looked down on if they do, and often, it is looked down on to hire servants. At least it was like this a few years ago. These women are powerhouses with the loads they are carrying.
Prague Astronomical Clock built in 1410. 3rd oldest clock in the world, and the oldest still operating clock.
The holes were already dug and they didn't water, but still hugely impressive!
Israel still uses a system where each party has a letter of the hebrew alphabet as their symbol, you take one card with the party you wants letter, put it in a envelope, seal it, and then place then you leave the privacy room and go to the room with the box where you put the envelope inside while a poll watcher sees. Was done because many of so many Jewish refugees from so many countries arriving in 1949 and just before, that they needed a way to make voting simple. They still use it.
It is quite inconvenient to find you don't have any cash on you when you're mountaineering.
In Sofia Bulgaria, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, Muslims and Jews can all pray in their respective places of worship just across the street from one another.
Growing up my favorite food was strawberries, but at some point in my adult life raspberries snuck up to number one. Truth be told, I’m keen on most fruits.
Absolutely not. The hours you have to teach children are so limited. There are so many unbelievable important things children need to learn. Teach them about critical thinking (I mean the real thing, not what universities today are offering). Teach them life skills and about technology etc. Chess is absolutely great for the brain but so are many other things that are much more relevant to somebody's life.
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I love chess. I wish we learned at school. We did have a chess team though-
I first read “Armenia” as “America” and thought wth I know that’s wrong!
Cool, just not the chess club. My high school did not even have a chess club.
I learned it in elementary school math class (develops your logic). It's pretty common practice here in Montreal, or it at least it was when I grew it. :)
So did I. Our history teacher used to teach us chess and thinking revolutionary thoughts while singing along to his guitar "eve of destruction" and also a little bit of what was in the history schedule.
My friend ran a chess club for his kid's school in Washington state, US.
We went to the butterfly garden. Our stop-over was too short to visit this :-(.
I watched a documentary on this a long time ago. It was built in a really windy place, Dubai I believe. The building is shaped to help guide wind towards the turbines. And the bridges are designed to expand and contract since the two buildings will shake and shift a little differently than one another in high winds.
Here, am I sitting in my tin coin, Far above the world, Planet Earth is blue.
It may be overreacting to say "That alone warrants their doom", but still...
Considering that Peru is the one to give us this gem of stews, I heartily agree they should study their 2000-4000 heirloom varieties.
Makes sense in a country where income from witchcraft, sorcery and fortune telling is taxed. Fun fact: Fortune tellers didn't see it coming back in 2011.
Turkmenistan"s president is a president for life and loves weird architecture. He is also brutally immature and paranoid
Guys, that's not a graveyard. They are not even ships. These are boats of fishermen of Nouadhibou, Mauritania. boats-5ff3...beb6c6.jpg 
Surely there’s a more interesting fact about Tonga than their time zone, right?
The culture, society, and population goes back 60,000 years, so definitely NOT young!
This is a complicated/ fascinating story - the jester's name was Jesse Bogdonoff and he was accused of mismanaging millions of dollars worth of Tonga's money.
You forgot to mention that his name is Hubertus von Hohenlohe and that he is a nobleman deriving from a German principal dynasty.
Not fair if you have an enormous head or big breasts. But still fun to cheer on everyone in line ahead of you.
in 2016 a tv show host and clown was elected president of the US. He didn't have a sense of humor though.
for the Chinese tourists. Am i the only one who still thinks China has no right to invade and occupy Tibet?
I love post's like this, I learn so many weird, fun facts and it takes my mind off world event's.
Positive, feel-good, not judgemental or critical, not political, not about Covid or mental illness, and so much more! Thank you FactBuffet.
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There’s 195 sovereign states...and 82 countries listed...I’m no mathematician but there seems to be an inconsistency. Really cool post though. Happy New Year!
I think Scotland is still a country. It's not independent from england but you can call it a country.
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There were lots of rude commenters on these posts. I know the posts didn’t always fully explain everything but I found it interesting.
Missed this interesting one. Founded in 1317 The Old Pharmacy in the Franciscan Monastery in Dubrovnik, Croatia is one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe.
Like the post! Missed Belgium. World record holder for amount of days it takes to form a government based on the election results... 541 days. Also, most deaths per million in the world due to covid 19 for countries with a population greater than 200 k people.
The phoenix park in Dublin Ireland is the largest walled park in a European city
South Africa is the only country that had 2 nobel prize winners that stayed in the same street...
indian sub-continent has four countries and none of them is mentioned as a person living there I am disapointed. Good facts present here though.
Pakistan (#14), Bhutan (#8), and Sri Lanka (#27) are all here, three of the six or seven countries that are generally considered part of the Indian Subcontinent
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I love post's like this, I learn so many weird, fun facts and it takes my mind off world event's.
Positive, feel-good, not judgemental or critical, not political, not about Covid or mental illness, and so much more! Thank you FactBuffet.
Load More Replies... There’s 195 sovereign states...and 82 countries listed...I’m no mathematician but there seems to be an inconsistency. Really cool post though. Happy New Year!
I think Scotland is still a country. It's not independent from england but you can call it a country.
Load More Replies... There were lots of rude commenters on these posts. I know the posts didn’t always fully explain everything but I found it interesting.
Missed this interesting one. Founded in 1317 The Old Pharmacy in the Franciscan Monastery in Dubrovnik, Croatia is one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe.
Like the post! Missed Belgium. World record holder for amount of days it takes to form a government based on the election results... 541 days. Also, most deaths per million in the world due to covid 19 for countries with a population greater than 200 k people.
The phoenix park in Dublin Ireland is the largest walled park in a European city
South Africa is the only country that had 2 nobel prize winners that stayed in the same street...
indian sub-continent has four countries and none of them is mentioned as a person living there I am disapointed. Good facts present here though.
Pakistan (#14), Bhutan (#8), and Sri Lanka (#27) are all here, three of the six or seven countries that are generally considered part of the Indian Subcontinent
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