- To start tings off with a bang, Europe is not technically a continent. It was agtually a Greek idea to separate it from.
- Italians do not drink cappuccino after 11.00 am.
- There are more doner kebab restaurants in Berlin than Istanbul. The Sagrada familia church located in Barcelona, Spain is taking much time to build than the pyramids. It was started in 1882 and it is not done yet up to date.
- The most visited place in Europe is Disney world in Paris, France.
- Only 1% of the items kept in the British museum are actually on display.
- The highest toilet in Europe is on Mt. Blanc at over 4200 meters or 13,779 feet.
- The small country of Belgium has the world’s longest railway network at 4,078 km or 2534 miles.
- Parushka in Bosnia is one of the last rain forests in Europe. Yes, that’s right, Europe has a rain forest.
- Bulgaria is the oldest country in Europe and has not changed its name since the year 681. How unbelievable is that.
- 40% of the Greek population lives in its capital, Athens.
- Iceland has no mosquitoes at all, not even one.
- The dark ages in Europe lasted for twice as long as the United States has been a nation.
- Russia has over 13,000 uninhabited villages.
- The leaning tower of Pisa took more than 200 years to build and it still leaned till this day.
- Crossants were actually invented in Austria.
- Greenland which is the biggest island in the world and has been inhabited at intervals over at least the last 4,500 years by Arctic people.
- The escalators in London’s underground travelled two times the circumference of the earth every week.
- The airport in Brussels sells more chocolate than any other single location on earth.
- Per Capita in Sweden has the most McDonalds in Europe.
- Thanks to the Loch Ness monster, Scotland receives the equivalent of €7M every year due to tourism.
- While using a ferry, it will take you only half an hour to reach Africa from Spain.
- The longest town name in Europe is llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch in Wales which is very hard to pronounce.
- Liechtenstein is a very small country. During its last military engagement in 1886, they sent out 80 soldiers and came back with 81. Apparently, they made a friend in Italy.
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