People Share Bizarre True Facts About Their Countries, Here Are The 45 Most Interesting Ones

The amount of dialects, compared to it's size. I am talking about Switzerland.

There is no exact number. Strictly speaking, differences can be found in every village compared to the surrounding villages, so that one could also say with some justification that there are at least as many dialects as there are villages, which is a huge amount.

Switzerland has always been shaped by conquests and immigration, and so very different languages have been able to coexist over the centuries. Even before the 6th century, groups with alemannic dialects immigrated to Switzerland, breaking up the nationwide spread of romance languages. Since 1848, German, French and Italian have been considered the national languages of the Confoederatio Helvetica.

We were the first country to legalize same-sex unions in 1989 🏳️‍🌈

My country's whole economic system relied on families of 10 children supporting the 2 parents. And that's the reason it totally failed, along with heavy corruption and nobody paying taxes, left us with being a country in debt for the last 13 years. Right now, the economic power relies only on tourism and nautical commerce.

Women health care is practically non existent
You can't go to a gynecologist without being bullied by your doctor or their assistant. They will judge you before you even try to explain what the problem is. There is no education on period or cramps or anything. No sex ed.

It has no official national language but many of its citizens think it's English.

The full name of our capital which roughly translates to city of the gods is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit

the age of sexual consent used to be 12. yes, you heard that right, 12. it wasn’t even that long ago that this was changed, it was changed to 16 just back in march.

We are most invaded country on earth. Scoring first with whooping 200+ times.

we have 11 time zones and it's so big that from our capital to some cities you need to go over 6 days by train.

There's an ongoing court case against a man, who entered the church with a hat.
It lasted 4 years and is still going, the procurators once again put it under scrutiny.

The movie The Wolf Of Wall Street was financed with our taxpayers' money. Also we lost a plane.

Despite being a country with continental proportions, more than 8 million square kilometers, we've got a notorious lack of atypical natural phenomena. No volcanoes, no earthquakes, no hurricanes, no tsunamis, it doesn't even snow anywhere in the entire country. On the other hand, we're in the list of megadiverse countries, with six continental biomes.
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.[EDIT] Ok people, it does snow in here, kinda rarely and only in a very small part of it, but it does. It was a generalization because the huge majority of us have never experienced it in the country, I'd risk saying more people from here have seen snow while traveling abroad than people have within the country. Sorry for the exclusion, I was just making it practical for the argument. Also, fora bolsonaro.

Our navy is the second largest air force in the world

you can marry a dead person (with presidential agreement and under special conditions)

We have a quarter of the world’s drinkable water.

We have the highest density of castles in the world, if the same rate were to be applied to New York, Manhattan alone would have two of them. If you were to apply our castles per capita (roughly 1/5000), New York would have 13,000, the US would have 514,000.

We are fourth in alcohol consumption, somewhere in top 10 tobacco use, #1's in beer per capita and over 30% of people here are obese

We have the highest number of porn stars per 1 million inhabitants....wow.

Our country declared war to the US sometime during WWI (or WWII? Can't remember), which to this day hasn't been ended with a piece treaty or anything. So we've technically been in war with the US for the last 100 (80?) years.

On one end of the country, there’s a cocktail where people drink whiskey with a real cut off human toe inside. On the other end, you get a certificate for drinking whiskey and kissing a dead fish.