#99: 13 Lesser known fun facts

In 2016, the national football team of Iceland made it to the Quarter-Final of Euro 2016. It is estimated that 9% of the entire population of the country were physically present at the stadium. Tweet This

According to polls, the only thing people in the United States of America feared more than polio in the 1950s was a nuclear war. Tweet This

Partridge sleeps on the ground with its legs in the air. Tweet This

Play-Doh was initially used as wallpaper cleaner. Tweet This

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Easter is the peak time for reading crime stories and detective novels in Norway. Tweet This

The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Roman Catholic chapel in the Czech Republic. It is estimated to contain the skeletons of up to 70,000 people, whose bones have been artistically arranged to form furnishings and decorations. Tweet This

Graça Machel is the only woman so far to have been first lady of two separate countries. She was the First Lady of Mozambique from 1975 to 1986 and the First Lady of South Africa from 1998 to 1999. Tweet This

The US flag’s official colours are called “Old Glory Red”, “White”, and “Old Glory Blue.” Tweet This

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In 2016, Italy’s Supreme Court ruled that masturbation in public is not a criminal offence as “the act was not included in the law as a crime”. Tweet This

The only indigenous primates that live in Canada are humans. Tweet This

In 2009, the expert in kidnapping prevention, Felix Batista, was kidnapped in Saltillo, Mexico. Ironically, he had gone there to give lectures on how to avoid kidnapping. Tweet This

The famous German politician, Konrad Adenauer, invented the soy sausage during WWI. He could not patent it in Germany, but received a British patent after the war. Tweet This

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Between 1958 and 1961, the United Arab Republic was a state and a short-lived political union between Egypt and Syria. It was dissolved in 1961, when Syria seceded. Tweet This