37 Things You Didn’t Know About Residents of Various Countries

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26Luxembourgers

Luxembourgers

69% of Luxembourgers and 53% of Belgians speak "at least" four languages.


27. Poor Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian alcoholics drink cologne because it is cheaper than vodka.


28. Australians use nearly twice as much coal per person than Americans and five times as much as the rest of the world.


29. In 2004, 1/6th of the Chadian Army did not actually exist. Officers had invented some 6000 soldiers so as to embezzle money meant to be used to pay and equip these imaginary troops.


30. Most people in Cuba still drive old American cars from the 1950s. There are about 60,000 classic American cars in Cuba today and if the embargo were to be lifted, the Cuban people could make a fortune off of these "Yank Tanks."


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31Cow State Funeral

Cow State Funeral

In 1960, debris from a failed American launch (Thor AbleStar) fell on Cuba, killing one cow. Many Cubans demonstrated, with banners on cows reading “The Yankees are killing us without mercy” and “Eisenhower, you murdered one of my sisters.” Cuba received $2 million compensation, and the cow had a state funeral.


32. Cuban ballet dancers are arguably the country’s most esteemed export. They often earn more money than doctors, and they perform locally to the type of cheering crowd that in the USA would be reserved for pop stars.


33. An indigenous Brazilian tribe named the Pirahã lost interest in converting to Christianity when they found out that missionary Daniel Everett had never seen Jesus himself.


34. Nigerian scammers once convinced a Brazilian bank to send them $242 million over the course of three years to “invest” in the profits of a new airport. The airport in question never actually existed.


35. Inflation has affected Venezuelans so much that in 2017, people sold video game currency in exchange for real currency. In many cases, these gamers made more money than salaried workers in Venezuela even though they were earning just a few dollars per day.


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36Colombian Peasant

Colombian Peasant

An $80 worth of coca leaves, from a Colombian peasant, can sell for $800 as coca paste, $2,147 as pure cocaine in Colombian ports, $34,000 just over the US border, and $120,000 on the streets of New York.


37. When University of Vienna students were asked their reasons behind choosing to learn Finnish, 97% of respondents said the main factor behind their decision was heavy metal music.

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