Top Facts about Country Switzerland You Must Know about
Top Facts About country Switzerland You Must Know About excluded in the video 1.there are approximately the same number of gas stations and post offices. 2.FM radio stations are on both even and odd frequencies. In the US, stations are only on odd frequencies (e.g., 105.3 FM). 3.newspapers are printed on small sheets: about 1/2 the size of American or British papers. 4.house loans / mortgages can be taken out for periods up to 100 years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The statistics have been taken from different online sources like wikipedia, article, news and newspaper. For any copyright related activities find me ****** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- subscribe me here:****** --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Everyone recognizes Switzerland as the land of mountains, cheese and happy people.
However, glossy tourism brochures do not tell the entire story: Switzerland is much more
than a country of stereotypes.
Check out this compilation of interesting facts about Switzerland that have probably
never occurred to you.
Not only Swiss people, but also their pets can be the happiest in the world.
In Switzerland, guinea pigs are considered to be social animals.
The owners are therefore obliged to have two pets at the same time so that a single guinea
pig does not feel lonely.
Special guinea pig matchmaking agencies offer to get your widow or widower guinea pig a
companion if you do not want to purchase a new one.
In case your other guinea pig dies too, you can bring the rented one back and get out
of the purchase circle.
By any standard, Switzerland belongs to the world's smaller countries.
And yet the country's German and Italian neighbours have a stake in some of its land.
The towns of Campione d-Italia and Busingen are the equivalent of a foreign embassy - a
property within another country's borders.
It is all a socio-economic-political mishmash.
The citizens of these territories are generally either German or Italian, both enclaves mainly
use the Swiss franc as the common currency and each of them has two different postal
codes.
What a special place to live in!
There are a number of thriving but lesser-known Swiss companies that reach millions of people
in the world every day:
Barack Obama and some former presidents walk and sit on Swiss made fabrics on the presidential
Air Force One planes.
For normal people, the same company also makes textiles for public transportation.
Yes, the personal bodyguards of the Pope were recruited in the Catholic cantons of Switzerland.
And the real reason the Swiss Guards wear those particular uniforms?
The treaty that established the guards was signed in the sixteenth century - and that's
the uniform they wore in those days!
The group, consisting of young Swiss men under the age of 30, forms the smallest active army
in the world.
There are 110 permanent staff members, which makes one guardsman for every single acre
of land.
With about 8,000 bunkers cleverly integrated into the country's natural surroundings, you
can call the Swiss experts in fortified construction.
Bunkers look like quaint dwellings or are covered by a cliff, camouflaged beyond recognition.
Did you know that every Swiss citizen is required by law to have their own bomb shelter " or
access to one " with an air filter?
It is completely normal to see ultra-thick steel doors once you enter the cellar of a
Swiss home.
With more than 300,000 shelters, every single person in Switzerland would be protected in
the event of war.
A landlocked country like Switzerland can have a merchant navy, too.
A special rule applies when it comes to flying the Swiss flag on international waters, however.
During World War II, a special Swiss naval ensign was adopted with 2:3 proportions to
conform with the shape of the rectangular ensign usually used by maritime powers.
The Olympic Games are another place where you can see the rectangular version of the
Swiss flag.
Born in the charming town of Vevey on the shore of Lake Geneva, Claude Nicollier is
the only Swiss man to have literally reached the stars.
He is a Swiss legend and completed one of the longest space walks in history - 8 hours
and 10 minutes, as long as your average working day.
And by the way on July 20 1969, a rocket not only landed on the moon but also in Rorschach,
Switzerland, where Frisco launched its rocket ice lolly that is still popular to this day...
