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You also canât name your child whatever you want in Germany. From my point of view thatâs just right to prevent kids from stupid parents ideas. I mean who wants to be called by a name like âmonkeyâ their whole life just because youâre parents are retarded and couldnât find anything better?
This is why you shouldn't get your information from YouTube because Germany followed by Wales has the most castles.
Notre Dame. Such a shock the fire. Was driving from work, a colleague with me. And the road comign from work was the A13 where you cross a tunnel and then you have a full open view of Paris. We wondered what could be one fire in the center of Paris. Arriving home , putting TV ⌠jaw dropped. Could not believe this could be destroyed. The Paris firemen did such an awsome work. Imagine you are a fireman in Paris and you train years in case this happen but you just donât want it to happen.
Polar bears came from Ireland and Irelands national colour is blue. Our alphabet only has 18 letters ( j, k, q, v, w, x, y, z) are the missing ones
St valentines remains are in Dublin
And finally we have the longest costal road on earth, the wild Atlantic way is 2500km
There you go, some bonus Irish facts for ya
French here. Actually the new roof for Notre-Dame is almost ready! They've just put the new spire up there. The church should be completed next year.
And it's already forbidden to mow your lawn in France on Sundays, except between 10 and 12 AM (because it's too loud for your neighbours).
our swiss neighbourhood must be full of outlaws .. we mow our lawns whenever we want
We have no mosquitos, because its cold..
And we (aswell as most Nordics) speak English, because we learn it from a very early age … also because most media is English, – no one will dub Hollywood to Icelandic after all.
In Poland we also have a group of approved names for babies, although I have no idea how long it is. If you wanna name your baby something unusual you either have to be a foreigner or get approve from Polish Language Board or get on the good side of the registrar if you know what I mean đ That must be the case with celebrities because sometimes they name their children pretty weird names. But for the common folk there are some rules, like the name should not be something that could ridicule the child, not a common noun (there are some exceptions to that) and should indicate the child's gender (we don't have unisex names here and the majority of female names end with A).
Also, there is a small desert in Poland! đ
I'm from Hungary and I honestly never heard of this no clinking rule. It's true that we don't do it every the time we drink but on bigger occasions it happens.
Come to Iceland, I'll hook you up with some tickets to go see Formula Off Road in the country where it was invented
little bit of trivia: the Eiffel tower is the most visited paying attraction, while Notre Dame was the most visited free "attraction" before the burning
The next Queen of Denmark will be an Aussie from Tassie, the crown prince of Denmark spent more time in Australia over the last 20 years than Charles ever did in his life.
When the Queen is dead we will get Queen Mary ……. of Denmark,
Building the Cologne Cathedral took more than 600 years, so Barcelona can take some time to relax. đ
We have a list of approved names in Slovakia too, but it's a much shorter list than in Denmark (474 names total). They are all written in the official "calendarium" of the Ministry of Culture and they are also assigned to the days of year. Every day has one name assigned, some have two or three. So we celebrate two things every year: the birthday and the name day. There are some rules, you can't give a girl's name to a boy and boy's name to a girl, no vulgar or derogatory names, no names after an object (apple) and if you want a foreign name, it must be used as a name in some foreign country and approved by our gov (no idea if they actually have to approve that).
We also have a small desert in the west part of Slovakia, the biggest desert dunes in Central Europe. And also the highest number of castles per capita in the world.
Regarding No9: Nobody knows how many castles there are in Germany (yet but counting and cataloguing is underway) but estimates say about 25 000!
21:40 San Marino is the oldest continuously existing democracy in the World since it started of as one in 301AD. The 2nd oldest is Iceland.
The Hungarian glass clinking is not entirely true that way. You never "cheers" with beer. We do clink the glasses if it's champagne for example, or pretty much any other drink but beer. It's also not a massive faux pas even if you do so, it's more of a story than a hard rule, and I also don't think the younger generation even in Hungary knows about it .
You wasnât far off the mark about âBluetoothâ . He united the language of Denmark and so all those years later when thinking of a name for a technology that connects different devices of various manufacturers the name Bluetooth was apt and sounded cool
There is some rainforest in the UK too. Before humans started reshaping the European landscapes, all of the European Atlantic coast, from Northern Spain to Southern Norway, was covered in rainforest.
About clinking glasses in Hungary, let me clear that as it's click baitish:
Partly true as you not suppose to clink your beer bottles together if you drink directly from them , but it doesnt apply to every glass (cups,etc.). Also it's a dying out tradition so for a tourist its fine to do it.
I've lived in Budapest for more than 3 years and I've always clinked the glass with Hungarians without any issues. They also do it.. So I don't know if that fact is real. It could be true maybe with the old generation or in towns. Because I've always done it in the capital with young people. But the word "egĂŠszsĂŠgedre" is always said when clinking that is true! you can also say it when someone is drinking and you say to them like you would in USA "enjoy!"
Denmark also have the oldest flag in tge world (still in use)
Cool facts – however whomever came up with this selection know nothing of Germany, it seerms 𤨠(*cough* most castles, Cologne Cathedral build time, etc. đ)
Well, on the languages topic probably in USA there is a similar quantity of languages spoken but the difference with USA is that most of those 200 languages in Europe are native in the regions they're spoken, opposite to USA where out of English, Spanish and the various american native ones (at least the languages still alive) they're foreign languages. And about English, be aware that in nearly all schooling systems in Europe a foreign language is mandatory and English is the main chosen for obvious reasons.
English as the most common language means its most people's second language, not first. So technically the language most people can speak is English, but only because everyone's first language is so different
Don't let them fool you. That 57 letters name in Wales is in fact the local wifi password. The town is really called Cave. Or maybe not XD
11:15 As a Czech, I never thought about how many castles we have. I take it as normal that when I travel somewhere, I will see 2 or 3 castles on the landscape scenery from the car.
In Belgium its also illeal to mow your lawn on sunday
Europe is a gigantic Nanny State. Glad I dont live there.
I just noticed, do you have a tattoo that has the same colour as your eyes and hair? Cool!
About the reconstruction of the masterpiece that is Notre-Dame (Our Lady) de Paris after the horrendous 2019 fire that badly damaged, but did not destroy it, you might find this interesting: how so many artesans who perpetuate ancient know-how have been working since, to restore the monument to its former glory and awesome beauty, using as much as possible the original materials and techniques: "Three years after fire, a race against time to restore Paris's Notre-Dame Cathedral" ⢠FRANCE 24 English (on YT)
Europe is also bigger than US
I know you get a letter from the king when you turn 100 years in Norway aswell. I used to work in a nursinghome, and a man living there turned 100. That letter from the king ment so much to him, that he slept with it under his pillow â¤
Cologne Cathedral took 632 years to build!
La Sagrada Familia is an expiatory temple and it's constructed by donations and doesn't recive money from the Spanish state or from the Spanish church or Vatican. This is the main motive the basilica is not finished.
Depending on state there is actually rules for baby names in the US as well. Mostly this is to protect the poor children from idiot parents trying to name their children to make some point.
I have to go visit Iceland and bring some Finnish mosquitos with me. Nordics should be equal in every way possible.
You are not going to walk through a random town in Europe and hear 50 different languages either.
You might hear 6 different languages in a random town in any given day and those are English, the languages of the country, any of the latin (Spanish like) languages, Slavic (Any eastern European), Arabic and the likes and any one of the African languages.
It also depends on how urban the area you are in is at the time. The further out from city centers you go, the less diversity in languages you will hear and it's not due to population density but rather down to that the countryside is more culturally homogenous than the cities are. Out in the nowheres of Germany, you will see a person who originated from Africa speak fluent German. While a similar person from Africa would not speak German in a Berlin suburb or worse, ghetto.
So the diversity is simply down to how immigration works in Europe. If it was evenly distributed across the country and not so insanely over the top, there would be less languages spoken at the same time in the same place.
The 200 languages spoken are very region specific. They are not all spoken all over Europe. Just the same way there's way more Spanish speakers in California, Texas and New Mexico etc than there are in Ohio.
Why would it be surprising that so many Europeans can speak English?
English is recognized as a global language and the one goto language for all international trade, aviation and in general for communication across language barriers.
There are several million Portuguese speakers in the world, as Brazil speaks Brazilian Portuguese. But it doesn't make it an international language as it's only spoken in Portugal and its colonies, most of which are now independent.
There's about a billion and a half Chinese on the planet. But again, only the Chinese speak Mandarin/Cantonese.
Spanish is a runner up for the most international language as it's spoken and taught in non Spanish countries. Primarily the US.
Personally, i would prefer it if more people chose to speak English more over their native languages. As sad as it would be to see such diversity being lost, most languages are simply too small to be of any value and it makes for a higher work load overall just to maintain and translate them into a useful global language.
I also personally dislike my native language, despite it being a language that has influenced English so heavily.
I am not proud of my native language and i find it ugly and overly confusing for anyone trying to learn it. I'd much rather they'd focus on learning English than my native language.
The Denmark fact is misleading at best. There's a list of 7000 PRE APPROVED baby names in Denmark. Meaning, if you pick one of those you don't have to have it approved.
But if you pick any other name (including creative spellings of the pre approved names) you must have it approved by the Danish government before it goes on record.
It's merely a speed bump on the way, it doesn't automatically mean you can't name your baby anything you want to name it. What it means is that a parent can't name their child something that would or could later on be a subject for bullying of the child. It's for the safety of the child's future.
I am sure you have a similar protection in the US, where you can't just name your child "Hitler" without someone in child services or likewise vetoing your choice.
Number 16 is not telling the true story in its headline.
It's about noise and rest, not strictly about mowing lawns.
Switzerland has a very strict "no work on Sundays" culture and only the work that has a strict necessity is going to be allowed on Sundays.
Noise regulations are very strict at night and on Sundays for the same reason, in that people should REST on Sundays.
If an employer wants to conduct work on a Sunday they have to get a permit for it. And workers are (by law) protected from being scheduled for work on Sundays. So the employer must have explicit consent from the employee before issuing any work to said employee. And the employee cannot be paid for overtime, instead their time must be compensated by leave on a following week day.
Itâs Notre dam (not rrr dame) In French the pronunciation itâs ânot re damâ.
Iceland names are even more restrictive.yes I believe itâs illegal to mow your lawn on Sundays. In the 1980s I lived in nordrhein Westfalen, and there was the same ruleâŚ