ITT: Surprising facts about your country

We are actually, despite the memes, African

We are actually, despite the memes, European

We are actually, despite the memes, Asian

We're actually rather fond of foreigners and welcoming.

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We are actually, despite the memes, Mexican

Dublin was once the 7th largest city in the world.

Apparently

>cosplaying
>going this far with escapism
cringe

It's actually a lot worse than most people think

we have some of the best seafood in the world

There's nothing surprising about America

Everyone knows exactly what the US is like

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we have the third largest ukrainian population behind ukraine and russia

it is in fact not a country

We eat more rice than a Japanese average person.

i love chikano

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At one point in recent history, there were more Greeks living in Melbourne than Athens.

post the dance

Canada is the world's first post-national country.

my fucking ass it is
more like america probably

It actually doesn't surprise me because we have so many anime conventions. Cosplayers are also common in student circles.

Most people of European descent in Western Canada are Slavs. Especially in cities like Edmonton, which may very well be the Slavic capital of North America.

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We have the largest amount of Japanese people outside of Japan, and more Lebanese than Lebanon itself.

We barely eat any lamb. Something like 2 pounds a year per capita

It doesn't exists officially.

At one point in recent history there were more Japanese living in Greenland than Hiroshima

While Greek shipping does and will dominate the global shipping market, it infact makes up a very small amount of our GDP. Less than 2% afaik. This is owed to the facts that it doesn't actually employ many people and that the shipping magnates are given huge tax exemptions just to keep them based here.

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I wonder why the hell my Ukrainian grandfather came here instead and to top it off married to a Canadian-french that lived in Maine at the time.

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podstawie

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Is that supposed to be a french school?
Where are the niggers and the north africans and the trash clothing styles?

there's only one country between australia and canada

The 3rd largest city of the roman empire was inside the borders of present day Germany

We have no public phones or phonebooths.

You don't have anymore, or you never had?

There's a weird tradition of 'touching wood' whenever you want to avoid jinxing yourself. If you refer to some future event in your life and don't want to tempt fate you knock on a wooden table or something similar and say 'touch wood'. I used to think this was just an Irish thing; it has pagan origins but apparently people in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa (?) do it too

imagine actually being pathetic enough to make posts like these

same here

we have the second longest coastline in the world

Don't have anymore. They were all removed some 10-15 years ago.

yew. so Japs are craziest country full of gay anime losers and France is 2nd? wtf I hate france now

Brazil too tough this i s fading and yonger generations dont do this anymore.

that's right, korean things like k-pop are also relatively unpopular here compared to other western countries

lmao gook got raped by Mongolia, then China, then Japan.

>surprising

We have it here as well, it's "hit wood". It's a lot more prevalent than some people think.
No one really knows it's origins tbqh, though theories vary from, as you said, pagan origins, to Christians adopting it from pagans, to Jews in late medieval era adopting the "i hit the wooden door on our hidden club" as a sign of good luck, and even a children's chasing game called "Tiggy-touch-wood" where if you touched wood you were "immune".

Did Nokia have something to do with it? Yes, i know that they probably were the ones who built them in the first place, but was it some sort of "we have mobile phones now, time for the future" sort of deal? Or just a cleanup of old infastructure?

We do it in the US as well except we say "knock on wood".

we were the first country to give women the vote

Rutherford (who split the atom) was a NZer

despite making up around 15% of the population, Maori make up 50% of prisons

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you weren't a country

to think I nearly forgot en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu

You got outweeb'd better luck next time uwu

also first guy to climb Everest

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Uhh.. What? I cannot hear you well? Oh you saying that you watch disgusting Japanese anime all day long to forget about your depressing life?? And you don't have any girl friend cause you look like a fat ass goblin and never gets out of your room? Okay.

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CRINGE

Idk if I just started noticing it more as I've grown older or more people around me are saying it but a lot of people here use the phrase "knock on wood" and autistically look for the nearest wooden object to knock on it.

I find it annoying and stupid.

Me and coworker were just talking about this the other week. We both haven't seen public phones or phonebooths in quite some time. They disappeared while we weren't paying attention especially with the arrival of cell phones. We couldn't remember the last time we saw one.

we had this, but I haven't seen it in a while

>despite making up around 15% of the population, Maori make up 50% of prisons
Why do you inprison them

Vending machines for used panties
There was one hentai shop once installed only one in the shop. That news spread throughout the world.

Cleanup, or rather, the maintenance of them was reduced to the point they decayed and had to be cleaned up. And yeah, they became obsolete.

We have the biggest palestinian population outside Middle East
They even have a football club in Santiago

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We are actually, despite the memes, black

General Petraeus supposedly did this

A Canadian invented the Hawaiian pizza

I guess you could call it... The dorsal Finn.

French don't get to call anyone else pathetic. Finish your yellow vest revolution then we'll talk about it sweety.

They're either very hard working, or extremely niggerly niggers.

I say it and then use my head.

We produce the best looking women and the best looking twinks in the world.

this

what do you mean

We do this too,we knock on wood 2-3 times

Christmas used to be hated by Puritans in colonial United States for its connections to paganism.

On average, 488 people are injured by zips and 3,078 people are injured by slippers every year in the UK.

The Queen is not allowed to set foot in the House of Commons.

Since 1642, when King Charles I came to arrest five MPs in the run-up to the English Civil War, no monarch has set foot in the House of Commons chamber.

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The Scottish national animal is the Unicorn. Why a creature that doesn't even exist? According to Scottish mythology, the Unicorn is the natural enemy of the Lion, the symbol that the English royal family adopted for itself.

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WOW I'm amazed that an american passed the opportunity to eat anything

ugh can you try on kimono

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we invented anime long before the japanese

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we know, this is why you butchered their country name you cunt.

if it's to call a roo, it's fair

We are third world.

What does the crown and chain around it's neck mean?

You pass through an anal test if you are suspected of being gay

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So that's what they were doing with that bayonet

we have the most white people of any country, more black people than uganda, and the third largest hispanic population of any country

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We are first world.

>more black people than uganda, and the third largest hispanic population of any country
Those are not surprising tho

There are generated flowing water noise devices in Japanese public toilets.
jp.toto.com/greenchallenge/technology/story/07/

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how many have the sega pissing game?

surprising fact about lithuania: IT RULED ALL TEH SLAVS ONCE

>the sega pissing game?
What are you saying?
That is just devices for covering sounds when women pee.

youtube.com/watch?v=fYJuDsISNtA
TOTO音姫【Japanese toilet silencer】