If you ’re a mathematical function nerd or a history buff or someone who likes to travel or just a person who enjoys learning unexampled thing , the a la mode video recording fromWendover Productionsis an sheer joy to watch . It ’s a quick tour of all the countries in the world ( this is the first part , so on the nose half the countries show up ) occupy with totally random but fun fact about each country .
The video jumps around the entire map and broadly speaking link up country together that you ’d never intend could be linked together . Here ’s a handful of fun tidbit from the video :
Liechtenstein had only 80 soldier go off to their last military engagement ( which was in 1886 ) but follow back with 81 because they made a new Italian friend
People in Bulgaria move their head up and down to say no and escape from their heads side to side to say yes
North Korea and Norway are dissever by just one state : Russia
The UK has the shortest regularly schedule commercial-grade flight , which is Westray to Papa Westray . It ’s in air for 53 seconds and travels only 1.7 miles
The Panama Canal has the Atlantic Ocean on the west and the Pacific Ocean on the eastern United States
It ’s impossible to drive between North and South America
Winter and Summer happen at the same time in Ecuador
There ’s so much more good stuff in this Wendover Productions video , I can feel my psyche scrunching up more wrinkles as I watch it :
Update : And here ’s part 2 , which includes facts about the rest period of the countries in the world . Here are a few fun ones :
There are only two countries in the world that do n’t have blood-red , white , or blue on their signal flag : Jamaica and Mauritania
18 nation in the world do n’t have a river in them
The Kuwaiti Dinar is the highest - valued currency in the world
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