About death penalty, it is a requirement to be able to apply for EU membership, like if you have death penalty, you wont be accepted in unless you get rid of the death penalty.
@@Ire_Naru that is what we call confidentally incorrect. Both Yoghurt and Cheese are containing lactose. You know it is just one google search away right? Why not first check before being incorrect.
@@mavadelo I'm not incorrect haha. You'd see I'm right if you actually googled it. Do we have the same google? The lactose goes so low after the pruduction process that they become what's considered lactose free food. I'm highly intolerant, trust me, I'd know if they were making me sick lol. The only kinds of cheese that contain a considerable level of lactose are ricotta and cream cheese. And as for yogurts, it's only liquid ones or solid ones which have had powder milk added to them after production (wich say that in the package. If they don't say it, they're safe)
I'm from Bulgaria... I love milk. I drink a big cup of milk mixed with coffee 4 times a day + sometimes often I just can drink a liter of cold milk instead of water, just because I'm thirsty :) *** Also another interesting fact, coming from Europe is that the oldest gold treasure in the world that was found came from the Varna Necropolis, as it is to be known. It contains over 300 graves dating back to the 5th millennium BCE. Among the graves were several that contained gold objects, including the famous Grave 43, which contained the oldest gold treasure in the world.
YES! Finally someone has said it! The Spanish flu is called "Spanish" because the greatest number of victims were in Spain, yet it came from the USA. We are tired of this misunderstanding that is still going on. Greetings from Spain by the way😅
Most people didn't die in Spain (other places had more), it was as they said in the video. Europe was in war, Spain was neutral and didn't censor their news so all news about the flu came from Spain. I think every video talking about the flu have mention it.
la llamaron gripe española porque fue el único país que informó abiertamente sobre la enfermedad y el número de muertes. No porque fuera donde mas muertes hubo
No, no. The greatest number of victims weren't at Spain. The greatest number of victims were in the countries at war, with no medical care at all. It's called Spanish flu because in Spain the people with the illness filled the hospitals and the press reported it, so the world knew about it from the Spanish press.
I am Italian and I can and do drink straight milk from the refrigerator. It quenches my digestion difficulties especially if cold... In Europe we consume LOTS of dairies, there are thousands of cheese types.
@@herm195 I just looked in my fridge how much "nutritional value" one liter has ... Milk 550-680 kilocalories, coca cola 420 kilocalories, and eating a bar of chocolate (100g) is around the same amount of calories as 1l of milk ...
As weird as it sounds in WW1 Tsar Nicholas II, Kaiser Wilhelm II and King George V were all cousins to eachother as they were all grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
That's why a genetic sickness was spread throu all aristocratici families of europe! That's why the son of the last zar was very sick, he had emofilia!
Archaeologist here: Ötzi the ice man did not die because of old age. He was put in MRI at some point and arrowhead was discovered in his back (shoulder blade). He was shot, he fell, he froze.
Please note: The Dark Ages actually do not bear this name because of their cruelty and life-hostile nature. They are mainly called like that because of a lack of historical documentation during certain centuries of the Early Middle Ages. Historians are still puzzling about how this gap of information between Late Antiquity and High Middle Ages is possible. By the way the reputation of the Middle Ages is much worse as they deserve it. Compared to the few centuries of Modern Era the Middle Ages were almost a paradise on earth, when you observingly study them. In the 20th century alone we had more wars and genocides in total than medieval Europe in the course of a 1000 years. Also the plague struck only once for two years in the 14th century (all the other plague epidemics were post-medieval). 🙂
@@michel9372of course it depends on the country u are Living, but in most countries the dark ages are over ~ 1000 AD, so before gothic was invented. Here in germany we count the dark ages between fall of West rome and Split of the frankish empire. Have Talked with a brit bout this topic some time ago and he said that in England it is count from West rome until William the conquerer showed up. Gothic started in the 12th century so at least 100 years after end of the dark ages. The only huge cathedrals I know which were built in the dark ages are the romanic cathedrals of Aachen, Lindenthal, hildesheim and Zeitz (dont know about other countries). Even the most famous romanic cathedrals of germany (mainz, trier) werent built during the dark ages. Mainz was after the dark ages and Trier was before the dark ages. Edit: what has happened during the dark ages and Not gets enough attention These days, are the huge numbers of monasteries during this time, which were the true megaprojects of this time. So if u want to See what These people could built during the dark ages go to the so called "campus galli".
It's not only drinking milk pure, but in europe we also eat many foods which includes cow milk, like many kinds of cheese, yoghurt, in germany Quark is also a big thing (and hopefully not only there, cause it's delicious) ... Or just think about cocoa or the milk you maybe put in your daily coffee or tea. So i can say, I only drink milk as in cocoa, but still have many milk products in my live and don't wanna miss it 🤓 ... Oh and don't forget to mentioned ice cream 😋😋😋 Greetings from Berlin 😎
As a Serb, when I think about it, it's insane the amount of dairy we consume (as part of coffee, tea, in cereal, we have yogurt (sour like Greek yogurt) for every breakfast, lots of cheese, cream etc.) It's very nice to have warm milk with nutella on a bread or with crepes, or with some nice pastry. I personally love cold and hot milk to go along with my croissant
The last European Lion died in the 1400's, I believe. There's a reason many royal heraldric symbols have lions on them, the Greeks had fables about lions, etc... It wasn't because of an animal that lived in sub-Saharan Africa.
Fun fact ... the oldest military treaty in europe ( and the world ) is between Portugal and England and was signed in 16 June 1373 and still active today
The bit about the Spanish Inquisition being unexpected will have gone right over the heads of anyone not British and old enough to remember the famous Monty Python sketch: "I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition....." "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!" Glad to have clarified that.
Here in Norway, not drinking milk is basically unheard of. We usually have a glass of milk with our meal daily, and usually for more than one of the meals. For me personally, living a life without drinking milk is just a hypothesis that's hard to imagine being an actual reality.
For me it is hard to imagine humans, who do not even drink their own species milk after the aproximate age of two, would go as an adults and drink milk from the other animal, which is ten times heavier.
@@jonnor6883 Yes, I'm not saying that there aren't Norwegians that don't drink milk. I have a wife that don't need to drink milk. I'm just saying it's the norm, and that we as a society is based on the "fact" that milk is something we appreciate and see as an integral part of our cultural heritage.
I'm saluting my brave ancestors for drinking milk and having diarrhea from it so now I can eat cereal when I want Fun fact : during Black Death epidemic Poland was one of the few places in Europe that were nearly untouched by the plague, because one of our greatest kings, Kazimierz Wielki (Casimir the Great) closed all borders for a few years and focused on building fortresses and castles that were useful in later wars
Here is something to find on RUclips “Sweden switched to driving on the right side of the road on **September 3, 1967**. This day was famously known as "**Dagen H**" (H Day), where "H" stands for *Högertrafik*, meaning "right traffic" in Swedish. The transition was a massive undertaking involving extensive planning, public awareness campaigns, and infrastructure changes. The goal was to improve road safety, especially because Sweden's neighboring countries already drove on the right. Before the switch, there was an increased risk of accidents when Swedish drivers crossed into Denmark, Norway, and Finland. On H Day, at 5:00 a.m., all vehicles on Swedish roads were instructed to stop and carefully move from the left side to the right side before resuming driving. The change went relatively smoothly, with only a few minor incidents reported, and it marked a new era for Swedish traffic.”
A lot was left out. For example, Spain, Northern and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia were hardly treated. It focused primarily on England, France, the Romans and Greece
I have worked as a flight crew on planes dropping anti-rabies vaccine during a fox vaccination campaign in Bulgaria. The Swiss started it and it was adopted by almost every EU country as proven highly effective. Also it is not only red foxes, but any animal that doesn't refrain from chomping on a corpse. And what you'll find most interesting is, the company i worked for performed this type of general aviation area work in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosna and Moldova so it was kind of a Balkan Tour while employed. And we did it all with the good old american made Cessna 172 (12 of them), a Piper Seneca IV and a Piper Arrow. It was one of the best jobs i have ever had!
Hurrah! You're the first American I've ever heard say "Moscow" as the rest of the English-speaking does! Everytime I hear "Moss-cow" i flinch. Re "The Dark Ages". It's 20 years since I went to Uni to study History (before that it had been Anthropology) and already all our text-books and lectures informed us that there was NO "Dark Age". In Britain the period of time after the Romans left is known as "Post-Romano Britain". which then led to the Medieval. Also, we use BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era). When I first started watching You Tube it was very strange to find BC & AD used. Am used to it now but still automatically use BCE & CE. Not saying this to show off or anything, but because it makes me kinda cross that it would appear that schoolbooks don't stay up to date. And also, so many present absolute myth as fact which is so unfair...as well as giving a skewed idea of what History is. (Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. It's been bugging me for yonks. I shall now retire, make a cup of coffee, and will shut up about it.)
Ian, if you wish, you can dine in the Hotel La Couronne, in Rouen France, directly opposite the marker where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. It has been an inn since 1345. It is said that customers were dining there and looking out the front window at the burning of Joan of Arc, just a few yards away, in 1431.
The pewter plates weren't the only reason. Tomato is a member of the nightshade family and was originally very toxic. Selective breeding has made the fruit safe to eat, but the leaves are still slightly poisonous.
First quarantine showed in the world was in Dubrovačka reublika in Croatia July 1377, arivals spend 30 days in quarantine in islands, new law sent travelers directly to the small, mostly banned islands of Bobara, Mrkan and Supetar and later Koločep, Lopud and Šipan, for 30 days. This was the the most important thing to save Europe for epic disaster. Thanks Dubrovnik.
I hate when people call it 'European colonialism'. There were few countries that were colonisers but some didn't attack any other country. I think those that were should be called by name and not stick that sh*t on everyone.
Finally someone who shares my opinion. I hate it too. I am like my country was busy surviving colonisers from the East aka Ottoman Empire for example. What irritates me even more is though that people still call European colonisers although it ended quite a long time ago. I would be weird if I would call todays Turkish people Ottomans.
Actually there were two flavors of colonialism. British, Spanish and Portuguese - economical in nature, which aimed at 'acquiring' natural resources (see India and Latin America), and French - triggered originally by incessant acts of piracy by the Barbaresques (North Africans), which led to the construction of roads, hospitals and schools (see French-speaking Africa). A little known fact is that French colonies in Africa actually represented a net deficit for France but anti-colonials will never tell you that.
Right? My country was invaded several times, hell it's been 35 years since we were finally freed from Soviets and they keep saying European colonisers. My country didn't colonise anyone as we were too busy getting rid of those who colonised us. It's like saying Europe is a country. Name those who were the colonisers, don't put everyone in the same bag.
@@Phobos_Nyx this is so relateable ...in my country's case it wasnt the Soviet Union but Yugoslavia... before that Austro Hungarian Empire, plus Italians and the Ottomans... we were hella busy as well. But some people apparently dont know history too well. It would be stupid as well if we called Asia colonizers just because Ghengis Khan did it with his Mongol people. These days though its a trend on hating on Europe as one unit and no matter if our ancestors did something or not we are all bad 🤮 They wanna sound smart but end up being dumb. Thats all I am going to say
Another fun fact: the largest national park in the EU is about twice as large as the largest national park in Europe. How that's possible? The largest national park in Europe is on Iceland. The largest national park in the EU however is located in French Guyana, which is in South America, but it's a department of France and therefore officially part of the EU. So it's in the EU, but not in Europe. Kinda strange, right? The ESA rocket launch platform is also in French Guyana. Being closer to the equator is an advantage for launching rockets. The NASA one is in Florida for the same reason.
The short flight in the Orkneys is because they are islands and when the weather is bad the crossing by sea can be dangerous. They don’t use a 737 though but a much smaller plane.
Stunning how americans handle their history! I spent myself from 1981 to 1986 over six years in the US. I heared several times that they are corious about our european history in the past with the greek and roman Empire and all the cracy wars at the medevial age! And they got confused when I explained them, That this history is the history of all white and hispanic americans until 1776!!!!
Greenland is a constituent country in the kingdom of Denmark, with the Faroe Islands and Denmark (the country). We had a referendum in Denmark in the 90s about giving Greenland and the Faroe Islands independence, and the result was basically "if they want it" so there was a change to the Danish constitution giving Greenland and the Faroe Islands home rule (complete domestic autonomy) and until they reach a democratic "yes" to independence, Denmark will take care of their military and foreign policy needs, including giving them what we call "bloktilskud" which is a sort of subsidy for Greenland it's roughly 550 million in $ value, Faroe islands have decreased theirs in return for more autonomy in foreign policy. It's a thing, so yeah Greenland can freely leave whatever they want, we have no say in it. They have their own laws, government, constitution and so on. It's a bit like the British commonwealth, except less independent atleast for now. The reason is, well, a few reasons really first of all Norwegians settled Greenland a few hundred years earlier than the medieval inuits that are the ancestors of the Greenlanders, but why Denmark and not Norway? you might ask, well Norway and Denmark was a twin kingdom for about 600 years, give or take, really it is more like 400 years but the plagues in the 13th century wiped out most of the Norwegian nobility and upper class, and being the uppity bastards that we are, we just you know hippity hoppity this is now Danish property, but i digress. The Norwegian settlements on Greenland are thought to have died out (probably literally) around the medieval cooling period, at any rate they were discovered to be abandoned in the 18th century by a Danish expedition, led by a Danish-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede who came there to christen the heathen Norwegians to the true christianity, indeed they were protestants coming to convert catholics on Greenland. Instead they found quite a few inuits instead. Long story short, and alot of detail about terrible things being done. Norway did contest the claims in the UN in the 1950s iirc, but Danish claims were upheld provided Denmark can exert military force on the island, hence the Sirius patrol, Danish troops patrolling the Greenlandic inland ice.
17:30 In Poland we basically had a government sponsored TV campaign that promoted drinking milk by children ( many famous Polish sportsman were included ) and it said "Drink milk, you'll grow big". So yeah, many Polish people drink milk without an issue.
A big dairy company had a campaign like that over here in Finland in the 1980's. They chose Ben Johnson for the ads, as an example of how strong you can become by drinking milk. Then it was revealed Johnson was a heavy doping user. The ads disappeared quickly.
We had a similar milk products propaganda by the milk lobby in France which was VERY prolific since not so long ago (until around the second half of the 2010s I'd say). Happy it slowed down, because the benefits we tended to give to milk are now proven to be way overrateded, if not bullshit. And as a country very well known for its cheeses, it's quite hard to not encounter resistance when you say that milk products are not so good for your health, regardless your ability to digest them or not.
Fun fact... the russian revolution in 1917 is also called "the october revolution". But since Russia still used the julian calender, it happened in november (for us using the gregorian)
The dairy industry in Northern Europe is HUGE. Scandinavia especially, has an overwhelming amount of different dairy products and lactose intolerance is fairly rare in native the population
17:30 That's so funny 😅 Living in Portugal, I've only met ONE person my whole life with lactose intolerance. One! It was a friend of my brother's. Everyone drinks milk, eats yogurts and cheese and has no problem with it.
Imagine how insignificant to the actual size of history you can find in Europe what you watch is, if they didn't even come close to mention something huge like the Holy Crusade, as one of multitude of big events. The history is so saturated and multilayered here and also disputed in certain regions around certain topics and events, times and people... that it makes it that much more fun and interesting, and huge. You can spend weeks and still be barely dipping your toes in it.
the shortest flight is done, because the ocean can be there really wavy and dangerous for a boat so they decided to do the short island hop on plane to carry inhabitants to for example like school or work between the two islands
@@schwartzy65 Can you build a 300 meters pillar on the bottom of the sea? If so,how much it would cost? It would be like building many Burj Khalifa under salty water.
@@schwartzy65 its Deep and Rough water - with storms that hamper boats - any bridge built would need to weather this and also any traffic on this would be at the mercy of the weather the cost of building it would be astonomical in comparsion to just a small play jump
I'm from Sweden, i get 25 days paid vacation every year mandated by the government. And an extra 5 days ontop of that in my company contract. Means i take an "Industrial Summer" and go on holiday for 6 weeks every July.
The calendar inconsistencies probably didn't affect very much as it took days to travel anyway and not that many people travelled between countries. That sort of thing would be a lot worse today, especially without the UTC.
I'm from Estonia and moved to Finland about 10 years ago. In both countries it is very common for all ages to have milk. In diners the drink options often include milk and many people pick milk over water with their meals. I personally find it very strange for adults to drink milk but whatever Trevor. 😅
If you want something even more strange but true: - The people living in Europe, despite with the different languages and cultures- their ancestral heritage precedes all countries and empires in existence in Europe. What that means is, whoever lived in the European continent long before Roman or any empire, are the same people living there today, possibly going back to many 10s of thousands of years. That means, all the conquests and invasions did not significantly change the ethnical make up of Europe, ever since the appearance of the homo sapiens. People speaking different languages are the remnants of conquests and empires, but the ethnic make up of people are more of the same than different.
Yeah. IKEA is pretty big here. The tiny country of the Netherlands has 13!! Stores. Our house is basically an IKEA showroom. It’s pretty decent furniture and other stuff for an affordable price. I do think the quality is going down. I still have a PAX wardrobe I bought 15 years ago and have moved at least three times. But I also bought some newer ones. I’m pretty sure they won’t survive even a single move.
The dangerous thing with the Vesuvio volcano is, that it‘s nearby the city of Naples, and Naples itself is located right on top of the phlegraean fields, which basically is a volcanic minefield and described as a supervolcano. What‘s frightening is, that there are many signs for an upcoming outbreak like toxic air and sulfur is coming out of the ground in increasing amounts and already took over some villages. And it‘s still not clear how to evacuate all the people from Naples and many more cities and villages in the region when the Vesuvio or one of the volcanos in the phlegraean fields or, in the worst case, both (affected by one another) really decide to break out
22:40 In fact it is so obvious once you drive in those countries that it gets quickly adopted. You just go with the flow and after half an hour you are used to it.
Just a fun fact, The word ''dictator'' didn't had a negative meaning in anvient Greece and Rome. He was just someone who accumulated power (the throne mostly) when it wasn't his (like not being desendant of the previous king and stuff) Many dictators did really good things for the people (mostly structure wise) One (I don't remember his name I think he was Pisistratos) was the first one to create the first foucets let's say and the people could finaly drink water without dieing from microorganisms that were in it.
1st: Incidentally, King George II was of German descent, having been born in Hanover. Since the accession of George I, the English and other monarchies have been ruled by the House of Hanover. Therefore, their lineage has been predominantly German for the past three centuries. 2nd: Many people in Central and Northern Europe consume significant quantities of milk and cheese (not the product you Americans often refer to as cheese). Those in Southern and Southeastern Europe excessively enjoy a wide variety of dairy products such as white cheese, goat cheese, and sheep cheese. I know for a fact that people in Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Greece, and Macedonia include milk in their daily morning routine.
I mean. Let me put it like this for the milk commoness, especially cheese in europe. Every country in europe has *at least* one national cheese, but they usually have more than one. And we can narrow it further by saying that some countries have specific types of cheeses by specific regions like Parmegiano (named after Parma, Italy), Brie (named after Brie, France), Emmental (Emental, Switzerland), or even by specific geographical features, like Grana Padano named after Po Valley/Padan Plain in Northern Italy. We're talking about thousands of different cheeses out of different milks. Some people around here see the concept of lactose intolerancy as a joke.
"Some people around here see the concept of lactose intolerance as a joke." That only means they don't understand what lactose intolerance is. First of all, except for the more severe cases, being intolerant and drinking milk anyway will cause minor digestive problems like a lot of gas and runny stool. Not fun, but not a health risk, and some can judge it a not so bad price to pay for having a good ice cream on a hot summer day, for example. And second, lactose intolerant people can have cheese all they want, as most of, if not all, the lactose in the milk is destroyed during the cheese making.
that's just plain ignorance , that lactose intolerance is a joke , do they also believe that diabetes is a joke? I mean how can someone not eat fruits and bread am i right? Also one of the reason for this ignorance is that not all people dink milk, most usually drink it in coffee ; While eating cheese as a european , most of us do , but the ones that you mentioned usually don't have lactose . By ageing the cheese the lactose is reduces , the more it ages the less it is. Also europeans eat a lot of cheese that naturally don't contain lactose like pecorino , hollumi ,etc
Yes, Ikea has branches in countless countries and its furniture, nice and cheap, is pefered by young people starting out. Hence the bed :-) Greetings from Austria
If I remember correctly, the Spanish Flu originated from an army-base in Kansas. It then hopped over the Atlantic when the US started sending troops to help fight in WWI, and absolutely devastated the already horrible war effort on both sides.
Belgian Ikea right there. And not a big deal, just cheap and usable furniture. They used to drink whine from pewter goblets, that made it taste sweet ;-)
In Czechia we drink milk whenever we want to I guess. For me it was common to drink a mug of milk with dinner (dinners here tend to be cold. Breads of various kind with spreads and cheese and salami or other deli meats)
Hi Ian, the shortest flight from Papa Westray to Westray is 7,25 £ one-way, or roughly 10 $. btw: The shortest INTERNATIONAL flight was between Germany and Switzerland from Friedrichshafen to St. Gallen across Lake Constance (Bodensee). "Duration" 8 minutes.
Here in Switzerland we are big consummers of dairy products so while drinking straight up milk is not very common, drinking or eating milk products (like chocolate milk, milk chocolate, cheese, etc.) or even using milk in something else (coffee and tea, using it in a recipe) is a daily thing for most people here. When it comes to villages with funny names, there's a village named "Bitsch" in Valais, Switzerland.
@@AciduZZu002și să nu uităm ca pe teritoriul României se află dovezile celei mai vechi civilizații europene, chiar suntem ombelico del mondo, un pic exagerat dar totuși nu suntem ultima găină din coteț așa cum vor unii să inducă ideea.
Actually old Europe its from west France ,UK to Ural mountains in Russia today ,after Ural mountains we called Asia where mongols,chinese live before until today .
What most people don't know there is also a super volcano in Europe, the Phlegraean Fields. They are located near Vesuvius, but do not belong to the Vesuvius. They are much larger and partly located under the Mediterranean Sea. An eruption would not only destroy most of Europe, but would have global repercussions. Greenland belongs to Denmark and French Guiana is in South America but belongs to France. It is therefore part of the EU and has the Euro.
Love your reactions……..a Brit here, I’m 64 and drink loads of milk everyday, on cereals every morning and obviously in cups of tea (many) and gulps of fresh cold milk from the fridge when I’m thirsty throughout the day! These days it’s semi-skimmed……………I love cheese too and eat loads of it! BTW, according to a CT scan I had the other day (free via the wonderful NHS), my arteries are completely clear! 😊
Ditto and I'm 63. Speaking of cheese, it seems the bacteria contained in cheese made from unpasteurized milk helps reinforce the immune system. As a kid I had never heard of allergies among school buddies but now that processed cheese has become widespread, so have cases of allergy. Stilton anyone?
20km (12.5mi) to the West of the Vesuv tere is the super vulcano-system called "Phlegraean fields" located, with could be as deadly as the Yellow Stone in the USA. @IWrocker EDIT: Funfact - AUSTRIA drove at least on the left side of the road from 1915 on. BUT several changes made the situation on the streets rather complicated! Vorarlberg: turned to right at August 21st in 1921 On April 2nd 1930: only the West of Austria: Tyrol (without East-Tyrol) and the West of Salzburg July 15th 1935: Kärnten und East-Tyrol July 1st 1938 („Anschluss“ to the German Reich" the german aw was introduced for all Austria BUT not for Upper Austria (Upper-Donau) Vienna and the North of Burgenland and some parts of the Northern Styria, where some exception rule were given. These last exceptions turned to right traffic at September 19th in 1938!
and as a reminder, Yellowstone, there have been approximately 70 eruptions inside the crater, since its last big eruption. An eruption in Yellowstone does not necessarily mean cataclysm.
nice, somwhere around 1938 was traffic turned to right side in Czechoslovakia too (That time i was split again into Czech and Moravian protectorate and Slovak state)
Connecting right side driving in Europe to Napoleon is one of many theories and is not an argument for many European countries. In Czechoslovakia, there was a left side driving and was going to right side driving by law - but german occupation made it quicker by a few weeks. Left side driving was also used in Hungary, Austria, Sweden in 1930. Sweden switched to right side driving in 1967 and Island in 1968.
17:30 Cheese. There are more than 1800 kinds of cheese in this world. 400+ alone are from France. 600+ in Germany. Cheese is such a high calorie dense food, For ppl in Europe it is ultra survival benificial to eat cheese.
@@neilgayleard3842 Sorry to disappoint you, but according to the World Cheese Award (and yes, that's apparently a thing), the best cheese in the world 2023 is from Norway and the UK didn't even make the top 10. And while I couldn't find any "official" sources on the most popular type of cheese in the world (at least not with a 5 minute google search), most sites claim it to be italian cheese, specifically Mozarella and Parmigiano Reggiano.
Bin on mount Etna.. It's beautiful, especially at night when you drive by the coastal roads you can see the magma streams glowing up. It's beautiful, also on the mountain everything is black (it's almost like the moon but black instead of grey), really special to see.
To be fair, i tried the milk in the US, it is not the same as ours. Ours goes off 3 days after opening ( why we dont have the gallon juggs like you guys) , yours stays "good" for 2 weeks. That aint normal 😂. It is also more watery and has less taste. . So yeah , there are plenty of adult people who drink milk 😂. I wouldnt say it is a majority but enough for it to be a normal thing. In my case just when i have a sore throat , warm with some honey but I do eat 3 pounds of cheese a week 😂, easily. Personally i dont know anyone that is lactose intollerant, tho i believe that goes for most of Gen Xers 😂 accross the globe. Those who were lactose intollerant just soldiered on, like the rest of us.🤘❤️🇺🇲🇧🇪🇳🇱
Because American milk is UHT (Ultra High Temperature Pasteurisation) milk. The same as the little plastic milk pods you get in hotel rooms. As explained in Fr. Ted ruclips.net/video/4t3njBw0G6k/видео.htmlsi=mc83oNUgdAI7xmgt
@@Dreynoour milk is also uht. Just that american milk has less proteins and less fats per l. Plus a bunch of chemicals. It is milk flavoured water, rather than milk like you ll found in europe where there are rules (like the 35, 32 for ex, 35 g of fat per l, 32 g of proteins)
I drove in the UK with my "continental" car , manual of course 😉, and found it quite pleasant. But, I think I would have had some difficulty with a local car with the steering wheel on the right.
Actually IKEA technically is no longer Swedish. They officially moved their headquarters to the Netherlands and are now officially a Dutch company. But in heart they still are very Swedish. I cannot deny that.
Just because their HQ is in the Netherlands, doesn't mean it's Dutch. But that being said, they're registered as a non-profit (charity) in The Netherlands. Tax haven.
5:43 yes and fun fact, 50% of IKEA wooden furniture in the world is produced in Poland, so if you have something wooden from Ikea in the USA, there is a chance that it was made in Poland
Yeah because labor is cheaper in underdeveloped countries. There's a shitload of Polish people working here kn Belgium where their wage is enough for the entire family to live lavishly.
I'm Ukrainian, been enjoying milk my entire life, turning 24 tomorrow and will probably celebrate it with a generous chug of milk! Pretty sure most people drink milk here, my grandparents did so well into their later years.
Have a happy birthday neighbor :) I'm turning 43 this year and I could count on my hands the days I haven't drink milk :) I was born in a medium size village in Romania and as a kid, I was drinking milk directly from the source(literally). All our neighbors had cows and I was always there when they were milking them. My main meal in school was a 1L bottle of cocoa milk. To this day, I buy 2L fresh milk every second day. I really feel bad for those who can't enjoy milk or dairy foods. Cheers.
What is normal for us can be poisonous for other people around the world. I had an american english teacher in highschool here in Romania who got sick and been in hospital after trying....smantana (or smetana,depending on what side of border you are,lol) spread on bread......wich is crazy. Also they can get sick from the carp eggs salad (i heard about some cases), so be careful what you put on the table to foreign visitors.
@@jzsf82milk directly from the cow, still warm, is one of the best things an human can enjoy...so an european😅. 35yo and drink milk instead of beers 😂.
Here in the Netherlands we love milk, I remember as a kid they even handed out free milk in elementary schools (I think due to overproduction, or some type of health experiment (since it is still believed to be incredibly healthy to consume dairy here)) It is still part of our culture to consume a huge amount of cheese, milk, yoghurt etc. We consume so much dairy still.
I've heard/read some time ago that the left and right hand drive comes from when we used horses. Like the left hand side is from old when we used shields, and you usually hold the shield in right hand, so it's safest to stay on the left side of the road. But with industrialization we started using carts with multiple horses. And alot of the industry carts had the horseman riding the horse and not the cart, and since you get up on the left side of the horse you would sit on the left horse and it's easer to navigate when you drive on the right side. And as the video said, UK used the old rules, but France and central Europe used the newer right hand rules
An another fact is France invented the metric system during the French Revolution and spread to Europe by Napoleon. And later by extension their colonies everywhere on the globe. This is why the metric system used by all countries today except 3 countries. The English since they cannot accept that the metric is better than their imperial kept their system. Despite all, the English colonies and even partially UK later adopted the metric. Except the US for some reason.
Fun fact: In Sweden they drove on the left hand side up until recently, in a historical sense. I'm not sure, but I think they changed it to the right hand side of the road in 1967
29:47 it's mostly because they stopped writing their information on tablets, as they had been doing, once they had started using paper, thus in fires and events, the paper obviously couldn't endure as well as the clay tablets had so the information was lost.
Paris metropololitan area has a population of around 10 millions. Paris proper, aka "Paris intra muros" after the last wall on which the ring freeway was build has, only 1.8-1.9 millions inhabitants.
@@monicacarolina6480Paris Metropolis if you prefer. Metroplitan Frances has 68 millions pop. Serbia has 7millions inhabitants, Belgrade and its suburbs only 1.6. 🤣 (Get your numbers right!) Paris is NOT that special, London and Berlin metropolis are way bigger!
@@fredericlepeltier3435 nope: Berlin agglomeration : around 5 millions, London Around 14-15 millions, Paris 12 millions. Just talking about population ( not about what makes a city specail or not)
In Sweden, a right-hand traffic diversion was made in 1967. Before that, strangely enough, most cars were left-hand drive but drove in left-hand traffic, and many traffic accidents resulted.
I didn’t realise Vesuvius erupted in 1944. Imagine 5 years into the biggest war u’ve even seen n u get hit by a volcano, ud think the gods r against u😂
bonus fact: there isnt just cheese made by/with larvae in the EU, but there is also a cheese made with mites, stemming from germany. apparently the procedure was nearly lost to history some 50 years back, according to the wikipedia article.
I never drink milk, excepted into café or hot chocolate. Bit in France we consumme huge amonts of chesse and other milk desserts like yogurts, creams, and such. I had never seen adults drinking milk.
Wanna say, just found you around the internet and I like your channel so much!! Im from Spain by the way so I like to see what an American thinks about the countrys around here. And also it's nice to see a Wagon fan in America ;)
19:03 shows one of my favourite streets in Moscow, Stoleshnikov Pereulok. I used to work in Moscow and before getting my own apartment I stayed at the Marriott Aurora, which is just left of that light blue "голубой" building.
French here. Went in Scotland around 2018, we rented a car in Edinburgh and drove across the country to go to Skye Island. Was pretty confusing at first ^^ But I got used to it in a couple of days.
13:08 Greenland is an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark so it makes sense that they were in the EEC/EU PS: Nevermind they said that later in the video.😅
and it is not in north america, i have icelandic citizenship and could see grenland from iceland coast lol.... no idea why he thinks grenland is in north america.. i went there with fairy or plane multipel times, even some inutis live in iceland who moved from grenland.. but maybe it is a fact that geographicaly it is more near the sea wich is north america geographicaly... both iceland and grenland parts of it are on north american tectonic plate and inutis who are natives to grenland are not europeans originaly, but north americans, so that could be the reason, when tectonic plate moved and split their parts still stayed on north american plate. so that could be the thing with north american thing..
I’ve seen quite a few Americans on RUclips and TikToks, saying they didn’t suffer with lactose intolerance drinking and eating milk and dairy products.while living in Europe.
All jurisdictions in Australia abolished the death penalty by 1985. In 2010, the Australian government passed legislation that prohibited the reintroduction of capital punishment.
the (west)german constitution (Grundgesetz) always had one single very short paragraph about the death penalty : _"The death penalty has been abolished"_ and since it supersedes all other local constitutions of the _Bundesländer,_ it automatically was abolished everywhere, even though it took until the late nineties (or even later?) to also formally purge it from the last local constitutions (Bavaria in 1998? and Hessen in ???). they simply didn't bother of changing their constitutions since it was no valid paragraph anyway. in (east)germany, it was abolished only as late as in 1987, and had been executed (edit: pun not intended) quite a few times during the decades after foundation of the GDR.
The reason for the short flight time between Westray and Papa Westray is that it is part of a round trip flight that goes between Kirkwall on the mainland of Orkney and the two Westrays. The route provides a vital service for the people who live there so, although short, it's absolutely essential.
There was a commercial some 30 years ago which features a boy Joris Driepinter. It says 3 glasses of milk a day keeps you healthy and strong. Also for adults. In the 60-ties Sweden still used to drive on the left side. They changed that on 3 september 1967.
The milk thing may be one of the most shocking things on this list. I did not know that. I am from The Netherlands and I drink milk every single day. I also eat cheese, because Dutch cheese is very tasty 😂
I really wouldn't classify Dutch cheeses as "very tasty". In fact, of all the major cheese-producing countries, I'd say Dutch cheeses are the _mildest._ Which is a good thing for some people, of course (not everyone likes sharp / salty / spicy / mouldy cheeses).
Speaking of that Romanian Parliament Building - if anyone can provide Mr. Wroker with the TopGear episode where they are racing through the underground carpark of said building would be appreciated. Also Mr. Wroker needs to react to the golden years of TopGear episodes anyways.
fun fact to nr 21, Hessen, in germany, TECHNICALLY still has the death penalty, since it was made 3 years or so before the " Deutsches Grundgesetz" but you cant be sentenced to death, since in the "Grundgesetz" it states that not only you cant be sentenced to death, but also that the grundgesetz is HIGHER then "federal state laws", such as hessens law.
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About death penalty, it is a requirement to be able to apply for EU membership, like if you have death penalty, you wont be accepted in unless you get rid of the death penalty.
Because death is too kind.
It also is a requirement of the council of European security which is broader than just the EU.
i am Dutch and here we drink milk and eat yogurts every day, we also eat a lot of cheese and butter
I am Dutch too and I don't like cheese and never drink milk. I do eat yoghurt but not every day. 😊
I'm from Slovenia and we have fresh milk vending machines.
Only milk has lactose of the ones you mentioned
@@Ire_Naru that is what we call confidentally incorrect. Both Yoghurt and Cheese are containing lactose. You know it is just one google search away right? Why not first check before being incorrect.
@@mavadelo I'm not incorrect haha. You'd see I'm right if you actually googled it. Do we have the same google? The lactose goes so low after the pruduction process that they become what's considered lactose free food. I'm highly intolerant, trust me, I'd know if they were making me sick lol. The only kinds of cheese that contain a considerable level of lactose are ricotta and cream cheese. And as for yogurts, it's only liquid ones or solid ones which have had powder milk added to them after production (wich say that in the package. If they don't say it, they're safe)
I'm from Bulgaria... I love milk. I drink a big cup of milk mixed with coffee 4 times a day + sometimes often I just can drink a liter of cold milk instead of water, just because I'm thirsty :)
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Also another interesting fact, coming from Europe is that the oldest gold treasure in the world that was found came from the Varna Necropolis, as it is to be known. It contains over 300 graves dating back to the 5th millennium BCE. Among the graves were several that contained gold objects, including the famous Grave 43, which contained the oldest gold treasure in the world.
YES! Finally someone has said it! The Spanish flu is called "Spanish" because the greatest number of victims were in Spain, yet it came from the USA. We are tired of this misunderstanding that is still going on.
Greetings from Spain by the way😅
Most people didn't die in Spain (other places had more), it was as they said in the video. Europe was in war, Spain was neutral and didn't censor their news so all news about the flu came from Spain. I think every video talking about the flu have mention it.
la llamaron gripe española porque fue el único país que informó abiertamente sobre la enfermedad y el número de muertes. No porque fuera donde mas muertes hubo
Actually it was called the Spanish Flu after it killed the King of Spain.
But you are correct that it came from the US, from a small town in Kansas.
It was the Kansas Flu
No, no. The greatest number of victims weren't at Spain. The greatest number of victims were in the countries at war, with no medical care at all. It's called Spanish flu because in Spain the people with the illness filled the hospitals and the press reported it, so the world knew about it from the Spanish press.
I am Italian and I can and do drink straight milk from the refrigerator. It quenches my digestion difficulties especially if cold...
In Europe we consume LOTS of dairies, there are thousands of cheese types.
Milk & cheese is amazing.
Portuguese here and yeah, we consume a lot of milk here,
North or south? The change from butter to olive oil and Parmesan to Pecorino that happens as you drive south in Italy is really stark.
I drink 1L of milk in a day😂
@@herm195 I just looked in my fridge how much "nutritional value" one liter has ...
Milk 550-680 kilocalories, coca cola 420 kilocalories, and eating a bar of chocolate (100g) is around the same amount of calories as 1l of milk ...
I live in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and my 97 year old grandma has been her entire life drinking milk on a daily basis 🎉
As weird as it sounds in WW1 Tsar Nicholas II, Kaiser Wilhelm II and King George V were all cousins to eachother as they were all grandchildren of Queen Victoria.
It’s not weird. Royalty are incestuous inbreds. I’d be more surprised if they weren’t related.
In fact, if you see photographs of them, they are physically identical
Tzar Boris of Bulgaria and the king of Romania were cousins too (not first degree but still)
Don't know about Victoria, but all of them had a mother that where Danish princess of origin. That's why they where cousins.
That's why a genetic sickness was spread throu all aristocratici families of europe! That's why the son of the last zar was very sick, he had emofilia!
Archaeologist here: Ötzi the ice man did not die because of old age. He was put in MRI at some point and arrowhead was discovered in his back (shoulder blade). He was shot, he fell, he froze.
Please note: The Dark Ages actually do not bear this name because of their cruelty and life-hostile nature. They are mainly called like that because of a lack of historical documentation during certain centuries of the Early Middle Ages. Historians are still puzzling about how this gap of information between Late Antiquity and High Middle Ages is possible.
By the way the reputation of the Middle Ages is much worse as they deserve it.
Compared to the few centuries of Modern Era the Middle Ages were almost a paradise on earth, when you observingly study them.
In the 20th century alone we had more wars and genocides in total than medieval Europe in the course of a 1000 years.
Also the plague struck only once for two years in the 14th century (all the other plague epidemics were post-medieval). 🙂
In Serbia it was age of inlightment
@@2dimitropolis370 I guess you are refering to the reign of tsar Stefan Dušan, right?
Spot on. It was during the so-called dark ages that all gothic cathedrals were built. Not so dark after all.
@@michel9372 Right!
@@michel9372of course it depends on the country u are Living, but in most countries the dark ages are over ~ 1000 AD, so before gothic was invented. Here in germany we count the dark ages between fall of West rome and Split of the frankish empire. Have Talked with a brit bout this topic some time ago and he said that in England it is count from West rome until William the conquerer showed up. Gothic started in the 12th century so at least 100 years after end of the dark ages. The only huge cathedrals I know which were built in the dark ages are the romanic cathedrals of Aachen, Lindenthal, hildesheim and Zeitz (dont know about other countries). Even the most famous romanic cathedrals of germany (mainz, trier) werent built during the dark ages. Mainz was after the dark ages and Trier was before the dark ages.
Edit: what has happened during the dark ages and Not gets enough attention These days, are the huge numbers of monasteries during this time, which were the true megaprojects of this time. So if u want to See what These people could built during the dark ages go to the so called "campus galli".
It's not only drinking milk pure, but in europe we also eat many foods which includes cow milk, like many kinds of cheese, yoghurt, in germany Quark is also a big thing (and hopefully not only there, cause it's delicious) ... Or just think about cocoa or the milk you maybe put in your daily coffee or tea.
So i can say, I only drink milk as in cocoa, but still have many milk products in my live and don't wanna miss it 🤓
... Oh and don't forget to mentioned ice cream 😋😋😋
Greetings from Berlin 😎
As a Serb, when I think about it, it's insane the amount of dairy we consume (as part of coffee, tea, in cereal, we have yogurt (sour like Greek yogurt) for every breakfast, lots of cheese, cream etc.) It's very nice to have warm milk with nutella on a bread or with crepes, or with some nice pastry. I personally love cold and hot milk to go along with my croissant
The last European Lion died in the 1400's, I believe.
There's a reason many royal heraldric symbols have lions on them, the Greeks had fables about lions, etc... It wasn't because of an animal that lived in sub-Saharan Africa.
One of the tasks Herakles had to do was to kill the Nemean Lion. He didn't have to leave Greece for that.
The Romans killed the european lions.
Fun fact ... the oldest military treaty in europe ( and the world ) is between Portugal and England and was signed in 16 June 1373 and still active today
The bit about the Spanish Inquisition being unexpected will have gone right over the heads of anyone not British and old enough to remember the famous Monty Python sketch:
"I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition....."
"NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Glad to have clarified that.
Here in Norway, not drinking milk is basically unheard of. We usually have a glass of milk with our meal daily, and usually for more than one of the meals. For me personally, living a life without drinking milk is just a hypothesis that's hard to imagine being an actual reality.
For me it is hard to imagine humans, who do not even drink their own species milk after the aproximate age of two, would go as an adults and drink milk from the other animal, which is ten times heavier.
@@VelidAgovic We also dont eat our own species but we eat others. Drinking their milk seems normal to me
Living in Northern Germany here it´s the same. Can´t imagine living one day without drinking some Milk.
Oh I'm Norwegian and I don't drink milk. Have no problem, just don't like the taste. Used be normal in the days to drink milk, but it's decreasing.
@@jonnor6883 Yes, I'm not saying that there aren't Norwegians that don't drink milk. I have a wife that don't need to drink milk. I'm just saying it's the norm, and that we as a society is based on the "fact" that milk is something we appreciate and see as an integral part of our cultural heritage.
I'm saluting my brave ancestors for drinking milk and having diarrhea from it so now I can eat cereal when I want
Fun fact : during Black Death epidemic Poland was one of the few places in Europe that were nearly untouched by the plague, because one of our greatest kings, Kazimierz Wielki (Casimir the Great) closed all borders for a few years and focused on building fortresses and castles that were useful in later wars
To be honest, milk was the least reason for diarrhoea in medical times 😂
"dark age" is the worst missunderstanding in history. Just a very long period of changes, that lead from ancient world to the "modernity".
It's just the modern notion some idiots have that everything was literal hell on Earth before like 1950s America. It's ridiculous.
Here is something to find on RUclips
“Sweden switched to driving on the right side of the road on **September 3, 1967**. This day was famously known as "**Dagen H**" (H Day), where "H" stands for *Högertrafik*, meaning "right traffic" in Swedish.
The transition was a massive undertaking involving extensive planning, public awareness campaigns, and infrastructure changes. The goal was to improve road safety, especially because Sweden's neighboring countries already drove on the right. Before the switch, there was an increased risk of accidents when Swedish drivers crossed into Denmark, Norway, and Finland.
On H Day, at 5:00 a.m., all vehicles on Swedish roads were instructed to stop and carefully move from the left side to the right side before resuming driving. The change went relatively smoothly, with only a few minor incidents reported, and it marked a new era for Swedish traffic.”
A lot was left out. For example, Spain, Northern and Eastern Europe, and Scandinavia were hardly treated. It focused primarily on England, France, the Romans and Greece
Cuentan solo lo que les interesa.
we nordics agree
No mention to little Andorra...landlocked too
I wanted to say the same thing
and many more I believe@@rolflin
I have worked as a flight crew on planes dropping anti-rabies vaccine during a fox vaccination campaign in Bulgaria. The Swiss started it and it was adopted by almost every EU country as proven highly effective. Also it is not only red foxes, but any animal that doesn't refrain from chomping on a corpse. And what you'll find most interesting is, the company i worked for performed this type of general aviation area work in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosna and Moldova so it was kind of a Balkan Tour while employed. And we did it all with the good old american made Cessna 172 (12 of them), a Piper Seneca IV and a Piper Arrow. It was one of the best jobs i have ever had!
Hurrah! You're the first American I've ever heard say "Moscow" as the rest of the English-speaking does! Everytime I hear "Moss-cow" i flinch.
Re "The Dark Ages". It's 20 years since I went to Uni to study History (before that it had been Anthropology) and already all our text-books and lectures informed us that there was NO "Dark Age". In Britain the period of time after the Romans left is known as "Post-Romano Britain". which then led to the Medieval. Also, we use BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era). When I first started watching You Tube it was very strange to find BC & AD used. Am used to it now but still automatically use BCE & CE. Not saying this to show off or anything, but because it makes me kinda cross that it would appear that schoolbooks don't stay up to date. And also, so many present absolute myth as fact which is so unfair...as well as giving a skewed idea of what History is.
(Sorry, I had to get that off my chest. It's been bugging me for yonks. I shall now retire, make a cup of coffee, and will shut up about it.)
Ian, if you wish, you can dine in the Hotel La Couronne, in Rouen France, directly opposite the marker where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake. It has been an inn since 1345. It is said that customers were dining there and looking out the front window at the burning of Joan of Arc, just a few yards away, in 1431.
The pewter plates weren't the only reason. Tomato is a member of the nightshade family and was originally very toxic. Selective breeding has made the fruit safe to eat, but the leaves are still slightly poisonous.
Same with the potato. Same family and they are poisonous if green.
First quarantine showed in the world was in Dubrovačka reublika in Croatia July 1377, arivals spend 30 days in quarantine in islands, new law sent travelers directly to the small, mostly banned islands of Bobara, Mrkan and Supetar and later Koločep, Lopud and Šipan, for 30 days. This was the the most important thing to save Europe for epic disaster. Thanks Dubrovnik.
I hate when people call it 'European colonialism'. There were few countries that were colonisers but some didn't attack any other country.
I think those that were should be called by name and not stick that sh*t on everyone.
Finally someone who shares my opinion.
I hate it too.
I am like my country was busy surviving colonisers from the East aka Ottoman Empire for example.
What irritates me even more is though that people still call European colonisers although it ended quite a long time ago. I would be weird if I would call todays Turkish people Ottomans.
And what's more! Some European countries and nations were themselves treated colonially by empires (Poland and Ireland for example)
Actually there were two flavors of colonialism. British, Spanish and Portuguese - economical in nature, which aimed at 'acquiring' natural resources (see India and Latin America), and French - triggered originally by incessant acts of piracy by the Barbaresques (North Africans), which led to the construction of roads, hospitals and schools (see French-speaking Africa). A little known fact is that French colonies in Africa actually represented a net deficit for France but anti-colonials will never tell you that.
Right? My country was invaded several times, hell it's been 35 years since we were finally freed from Soviets and they keep saying European colonisers. My country didn't colonise anyone as we were too busy getting rid of those who colonised us. It's like saying Europe is a country. Name those who were the colonisers, don't put everyone in the same bag.
@@Phobos_Nyx this is so relateable ...in my country's case it wasnt the Soviet Union but Yugoslavia... before that Austro Hungarian Empire, plus Italians and the Ottomans... we were hella busy as well.
But some people apparently dont know history too well.
It would be stupid as well if we called Asia colonizers just because Ghengis Khan did it with his Mongol people.
These days though its a trend on hating on Europe as one unit and no matter if our ancestors did something or not we are all bad 🤮
They wanna sound smart but end up being dumb. Thats all I am going to say
Another fun fact: the largest national park in the EU is about twice as large as the largest national park in Europe. How that's possible? The largest national park in Europe is on Iceland. The largest national park in the EU however is located in French Guyana, which is in South America, but it's a department of France and therefore officially part of the EU. So it's in the EU, but not in Europe. Kinda strange, right?
The ESA rocket launch platform is also in French Guyana. Being closer to the equator is an advantage for launching rockets. The NASA one is in Florida for the same reason.
The short flight in the Orkneys is because they are islands and when the weather is bad the crossing by sea can be dangerous. They don’t use a 737 though but a much smaller plane.
Stunning how americans handle their history! I spent myself from 1981 to 1986 over six years in the US. I heared several times that they are corious about our european history in the past with the greek and roman Empire and all the cracy wars at the medevial age!
And they got confused when I explained them, That this history is the history of all white and hispanic americans until 1776!!!!
Here in the UK being lactose intolerant would make you the odd one out.
Greenland is a constituent country in the kingdom of Denmark, with the Faroe Islands and Denmark (the country). We had a referendum in Denmark in the 90s about giving Greenland and the Faroe Islands independence, and the result was basically "if they want it" so there was a change to the Danish constitution giving Greenland and the Faroe Islands home rule (complete domestic autonomy) and until they reach a democratic "yes" to independence, Denmark will take care of their military and foreign policy needs, including giving them what we call "bloktilskud" which is a sort of subsidy for Greenland it's roughly 550 million in $ value, Faroe islands have decreased theirs in return for more autonomy in foreign policy.
It's a thing, so yeah Greenland can freely leave whatever they want, we have no say in it. They have their own laws, government, constitution and so on. It's a bit like the British commonwealth, except less independent atleast for now.
The reason is, well, a few reasons really first of all Norwegians settled Greenland a few hundred years earlier than the medieval inuits that are the ancestors of the Greenlanders, but why Denmark and not Norway? you might ask, well Norway and Denmark was a twin kingdom for about 600 years, give or take, really it is more like 400 years but the plagues in the 13th century wiped out most of the Norwegian nobility and upper class, and being the uppity bastards that we are, we just you know hippity hoppity this is now Danish property, but i digress.
The Norwegian settlements on Greenland are thought to have died out (probably literally) around the medieval cooling period, at any rate they were discovered to be abandoned in the 18th century by a Danish expedition, led by a Danish-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede who came there to christen the heathen Norwegians to the true christianity, indeed they were protestants coming to convert catholics on Greenland. Instead they found quite a few inuits instead. Long story short, and alot of detail about terrible things being done. Norway did contest the claims in the UN in the 1950s iirc, but Danish claims were upheld provided Denmark can exert military force on the island, hence the Sirius patrol, Danish troops patrolling the Greenlandic inland ice.
17:30 In Poland we basically had a government sponsored TV campaign that promoted drinking milk by children ( many famous Polish sportsman were included ) and it said "Drink milk, you'll grow big". So yeah, many Polish people drink milk without an issue.
A big dairy company had a campaign like that over here in Finland in the 1980's. They chose Ben Johnson for the ads, as an example of how strong you can become by drinking milk. Then it was revealed Johnson was a heavy doping user. The ads disappeared quickly.
We had a similar milk products propaganda by the milk lobby in France which was VERY prolific since not so long ago (until around the second half of the 2010s I'd say). Happy it slowed down, because the benefits we tended to give to milk are now proven to be way overrateded, if not bullshit. And as a country very well known for its cheeses, it's quite hard to not encounter resistance when you say that milk products are not so good for your health, regardless your ability to digest them or not.
@@AdrienmonLa même chose en Suisse 😂
Same in Slovenia. Years ago we had lovely advertisments for milk, I still drink 1 liter per day and I love it.
Fun fact... the russian revolution in 1917 is also called "the october revolution". But since Russia still used the julian calender, it happened in november (for us using the gregorian)
I am from Sweden and I am 64 years old I still drink Milk everyday I just Love Milk
Me too
I'm 13 from Sweden and I don't know how to survive without milk
I'm German and some years younger, but a glas of milk everyday, too.
Aye
@@BalthasarHeldermut ?
The dairy industry in Northern Europe is HUGE. Scandinavia especially, has an overwhelming amount of different dairy products and lactose intolerance is fairly rare in native the population
17:30 That's so funny 😅 Living in Portugal, I've only met ONE person my whole life with lactose intolerance. One! It was a friend of my brother's. Everyone drinks milk, eats yogurts and cheese and has no problem with it.
Imagine how insignificant to the actual size of history you can find in Europe what you watch is, if they didn't even come close to mention something huge like the Holy Crusade, as one of multitude of big events.
The history is so saturated and multilayered here and also disputed in certain regions around certain topics and events, times and people... that it makes it that much more fun and interesting, and huge. You can spend weeks and still be barely dipping your toes in it.
the shortest flight is done, because the ocean can be there really wavy and dangerous for a boat so they decided to do the short island hop on plane to carry inhabitants to for example like school or work between the two islands
Cant build bridge?
@@schwartzy65 Can you build a 300 meters pillar on the bottom of the sea? If so,how much it would cost? It would be like building many Burj Khalifa under salty water.
We invented bridges, we just understand when not to over dangerous areas.
@@schwartzy65 its Deep and Rough water - with storms that hamper boats - any bridge built would need to weather this and also any traffic on this would be at the mercy of the weather the cost of building it would be astonomical in comparsion to just a small play jump
@@schwartzy65 we tend not to want to destroy our views.
I'm from Sweden, i get 25 days paid vacation every year mandated by the government. And an extra 5 days ontop of that in my company contract. Means i take an "Industrial Summer" and go on holiday for 6 weeks every July.
21:30 For really fun info: Sweden switched from left-hand drive to right-hand drive on Sunday the 3rd of September 1967.
And there was total chaos. 🤣
But the cars had the steering wheel at the left side both before and after the switch.
The calendar inconsistencies probably didn't affect very much as it took days to travel anyway and not that many people travelled between countries. That sort of thing would be a lot worse today, especially without the UTC.
I'll give you one important fact, 102- Spain was entitled as "The Empire whom never sets the Sun", there was always a Spanish colony having sun :P
I'm from Estonia and moved to Finland about 10 years ago. In both countries it is very common for all ages to have milk. In diners the drink options often include milk and many people pick milk over water with their meals. I personally find it very strange for adults to drink milk but whatever Trevor. 😅
If you want something even more strange but true:
- The people living in Europe, despite with the different languages and cultures- their ancestral heritage precedes all countries and empires in existence in Europe.
What that means is, whoever lived in the European continent long before Roman or any empire, are the same people living there today, possibly going back to many 10s of thousands of years. That means, all the conquests and invasions did not significantly change the ethnical make up of Europe, ever since the appearance of the homo sapiens. People speaking different languages are the remnants of conquests and empires, but the ethnic make up of people are more of the same than different.
Yeah. IKEA is pretty big here. The tiny country of the Netherlands has 13!! Stores.
Our house is basically an IKEA showroom. It’s pretty decent furniture and other stuff for an affordable price. I do think the quality is going down. I still have a PAX wardrobe I bought 15 years ago and have moved at least three times. But I also bought some newer ones. I’m pretty sure they won’t survive even a single move.
The dangerous thing with the Vesuvio volcano is, that it‘s nearby the city of Naples, and Naples itself is located right on top of the phlegraean fields, which basically is a volcanic minefield and described as a supervolcano. What‘s frightening is, that there are many signs for an upcoming outbreak like toxic air and sulfur is coming out of the ground in increasing amounts and already took over some villages. And it‘s still not clear how to evacuate all the people from Naples and many more cities and villages in the region when the Vesuvio or one of the volcanos in the phlegraean fields or, in the worst case, both (affected by one another) really decide to break out
22:40 In fact it is so obvious once you drive in those countries that it gets quickly adopted. You just go with the flow and after half an hour you are used to it.
Just a fun fact, The word ''dictator'' didn't had a negative meaning in anvient Greece and Rome. He was just someone who accumulated power (the throne mostly) when it wasn't his (like not being desendant of the previous king and stuff) Many dictators did really good things for the people (mostly structure wise) One (I don't remember his name I think he was Pisistratos) was the first one to create the first foucets let's say and the people could finaly drink water without dieing from microorganisms that were in it.
1st: Incidentally, King George II was of German descent, having been born in Hanover. Since the accession of George I, the English and other monarchies have been ruled by the House of Hanover. Therefore, their lineage has been predominantly German for the past three centuries.
2nd: Many people in Central and Northern Europe consume significant quantities of milk and cheese (not the product you Americans often refer to as cheese). Those in Southern and Southeastern Europe excessively enjoy a wide variety of dairy products such as white cheese, goat cheese, and sheep cheese. I know for a fact that people in Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Greece, and Macedonia include milk in their daily morning routine.
I mean. Let me put it like this for the milk commoness, especially cheese in europe. Every country in europe has *at least* one national cheese, but they usually have more than one. And we can narrow it further by saying that some countries have specific types of cheeses by specific regions like Parmegiano (named after Parma, Italy), Brie (named after Brie, France), Emmental (Emental, Switzerland), or even by specific geographical features, like Grana Padano named after Po Valley/Padan Plain in Northern Italy. We're talking about thousands of different cheeses out of different milks.
Some people around here see the concept of lactose intolerancy as a joke.
"Some people around here see the concept of lactose intolerance as a joke." That only means they don't understand what lactose intolerance is.
First of all, except for the more severe cases, being intolerant and drinking milk anyway will cause minor digestive problems like a lot of gas and runny stool. Not fun, but not a health risk, and some can judge it a not so bad price to pay for having a good ice cream on a hot summer day, for example.
And second, lactose intolerant people can have cheese all they want, as most of, if not all, the lactose in the milk is destroyed during the cheese making.
that's just plain ignorance , that lactose intolerance is a joke , do they also believe that diabetes is a joke? I mean how can someone not eat fruits and bread am i right?
Also one of the reason for this ignorance is that not all people dink milk, most usually drink it in coffee ; While eating cheese as a european , most of us do , but the ones that you mentioned usually don't have lactose . By ageing the cheese the lactose is reduces , the more it ages the less it is. Also europeans eat a lot of cheese that naturally don't contain lactose like pecorino , hollumi ,etc
Not even mentioned the Country in the EU litteraly made out of cheese called the Netherlands.. very dissapointed
😆 I just know this is based of a simple search and copy and paste.
Some comment for beer brands would be interesting, not so much cheese in Belgian 😂 (except abbey cheeses which all have same brand beers hihi)
Yes,
Ikea has branches in countless countries and its furniture, nice and cheap, is pefered by young people starting out.
Hence the bed :-)
Greetings from Austria
If I remember correctly, the Spanish Flu originated from an army-base in Kansas. It then hopped over the Atlantic when the US started sending troops to help fight in WWI, and absolutely devastated the already horrible war effort on both sides.
Belgian Ikea right there.
And not a big deal, just cheap and usable furniture.
They used to drink whine from pewter goblets, that made it taste sweet ;-)
In finland its quite common to drink milk with breakfast, also lactose free milk is very common too for the lactose intolerant
In Czechia we drink milk whenever we want to I guess. For me it was common to drink a mug of milk with dinner (dinners here tend to be cold. Breads of various kind with spreads and cheese and salami or other deli meats)
Hi Ian, the shortest flight from Papa Westray to Westray is 7,25 £ one-way, or roughly 10 $.
btw: The shortest INTERNATIONAL flight was between Germany and Switzerland from Friedrichshafen to St. Gallen across Lake Constance (Bodensee). "Duration" 8 minutes.
Tought this was Maastricht to Liège..
look a the route from FRH to STG @@Real_Claudy_Focan
@@Real_Claudy_Focan Potsdam-Berlin...oh wait, BER still not finished.... :P
Here in Switzerland we are big consummers of dairy products so while drinking straight up milk is not very common, drinking or eating milk products (like chocolate milk, milk chocolate, cheese, etc.) or even using milk in something else (coffee and tea, using it in a recipe) is a daily thing for most people here.
When it comes to villages with funny names, there's a village named "Bitsch" in Valais, Switzerland.
Last year I've been to Romania's parliament palace and it is indeed extremely big. Guided tours only cover a small fraction but even that is a lot
My father worked there in a bunker (military man). Under the building is a small city.
@@AciduZZu002keep your mouth shut
@@AciduZZu002și să nu uităm ca pe teritoriul României se află dovezile celei mai vechi civilizații europene, chiar suntem ombelico del mondo, un pic exagerat dar totuși nu suntem ultima găină din coteț așa cum vor unii să inducă ideea.
Actually old Europe its from west France ,UK to Ural mountains in Russia today ,after Ural mountains we called Asia where mongols,chinese live before until today .
There is not such a thing as « old Europe »
23:32 One of the best imports ever! Who doesn't love tomatoes? They go along so well with so many things!
24:30 "NOBODY Expects a spainish inqusistion!" 😂😂 Loved that Month Phyton referance 👍
We have multiple Ikea's in the Netherlands is expensive but if you want a good bed that doesn't kill your back should go to local stores much cheaper.
One of the well defined border points between Europe and Asia is the Bosporus.
the short flight between Westray and papa Westeay is neccessary because the seas are really dangerous for small boats
What most people don't know there is also a super volcano in Europe, the Phlegraean Fields. They are located near Vesuvius, but do not belong to the Vesuvius. They are much larger and partly located under the Mediterranean Sea. An eruption would not only destroy most of Europe, but would have global repercussions. Greenland belongs to Denmark and French Guiana is in South America but belongs to France. It is therefore part of the EU and has the Euro.
Love your reactions……..a Brit here, I’m 64 and drink loads of milk everyday, on cereals every morning and obviously in cups of tea (many) and gulps of fresh cold milk from the fridge when I’m thirsty throughout the day! These days it’s semi-skimmed……………I love cheese too and eat loads of it!
BTW, according to a CT scan I had the other day (free via the wonderful NHS), my arteries are completely clear! 😊
Ditto and I'm 63. Speaking of cheese, it seems the bacteria contained in cheese made from unpasteurized milk helps reinforce the immune system. As a kid I had never heard of allergies among school buddies but now that processed cheese has become widespread, so have cases of allergy. Stilton anyone?
If you add milk to tea it better be Indian chai wit lots of spices and loose black tea, and not that junk in bags.
Here in Holland it's really common to drink milk ones or twice a day and eat yogurt as dessert after dinner
20km (12.5mi) to the West of the Vesuv tere is the super vulcano-system called "Phlegraean fields" located, with could be as deadly as the Yellow Stone in the USA.
@IWrocker
EDIT: Funfact - AUSTRIA drove at least on the left side of the road from 1915 on. BUT several changes made the situation on the streets rather complicated!
Vorarlberg: turned to right at August 21st in 1921
On April 2nd 1930: only the West of Austria: Tyrol (without East-Tyrol) and the West of Salzburg
July 15th 1935: Kärnten und East-Tyrol
July 1st 1938 („Anschluss“ to the German Reich" the german aw was introduced for all Austria BUT not for Upper Austria (Upper-Donau) Vienna and the North of Burgenland and some parts of the Northern Styria, where some exception rule were given.
These last exceptions turned to right traffic at September 19th in 1938!
I was trying to write it, thank you for the information
and as a reminder, Yellowstone, there have been approximately 70 eruptions inside the crater, since its last big eruption. An eruption in Yellowstone does not necessarily mean cataclysm.
nice, somwhere around 1938 was traffic turned to right side in Czechoslovakia too (That time i was split again into Czech and Moravian protectorate and Slovak state)
Connecting right side driving in Europe to Napoleon is one of many theories and is not an argument for many European countries. In Czechoslovakia, there was a left side driving and was going to right side driving by law - but german occupation made it quicker by a few weeks. Left side driving was also used in Hungary, Austria, Sweden in 1930. Sweden switched to right side driving in 1967 and Island in 1968.
17:30 Cheese. There are more than 1800 kinds of cheese in this world. 400+ alone are from France. 600+ in Germany. Cheese is such a high calorie dense food, For ppl in Europe it is ultra survival benificial to eat cheese.
British cheese is the best in the world. We have 2,000. We invented cheddar..
@@neilgayleard3842you mean best cheese of YOUR world i guess! Greetings from 🇨🇭
@@jeanpieerjean7356 CH is great for their fondue, I like the Gruyere and Emmenthaler very much. Sorry we can't make it here with our Gouda cheese.
No. The world.
@@neilgayleard3842 Sorry to disappoint you, but according to the World Cheese Award (and yes, that's apparently a thing), the best cheese in the world 2023 is from Norway and the UK didn't even make the top 10.
And while I couldn't find any "official" sources on the most popular type of cheese in the world (at least not with a 5 minute google search), most sites claim it to be italian cheese, specifically Mozarella and Parmigiano Reggiano.
Bin on mount Etna..
It's beautiful, especially at night when you drive by the coastal roads you can see the magma streams glowing up.
It's beautiful, also on the mountain everything is black (it's almost like the moon but black instead of grey), really special to see.
To be fair, i tried the milk in the US, it is not the same as ours. Ours goes off 3 days after opening ( why we dont have the gallon juggs like you guys) , yours stays "good" for 2 weeks. That aint normal 😂. It is also more watery and has less taste. . So yeah , there are plenty of adult people who drink milk 😂. I wouldnt say it is a majority but enough for it to be a normal thing. In my case just when i have a sore throat , warm with some honey but I do eat 3 pounds of cheese a week 😂, easily. Personally i dont know anyone that is lactose intollerant, tho i believe that goes for most of Gen Xers 😂 accross the globe. Those who were lactose intollerant just soldiered on, like the rest of us.🤘❤️🇺🇲🇧🇪🇳🇱
Because American milk is UHT (Ultra High Temperature Pasteurisation) milk. The same as the little plastic milk pods you get in hotel rooms.
As explained in Fr. Ted
ruclips.net/video/4t3njBw0G6k/видео.htmlsi=mc83oNUgdAI7xmgt
it's not milk it's white paint xD
@@Dreynoour milk is also uht.
Just that american milk has less proteins and less fats per l.
Plus a bunch of chemicals.
It is milk flavoured water, rather than milk like you ll found in europe where there are rules (like the 35, 32 for ex, 35 g of fat per l, 32 g of proteins)
@@etienne8110 Who is “our”?
@@Dreyno EU europe.
I drove in the UK with my "continental" car , manual of course 😉, and found it quite pleasant.
But, I think I would have had some difficulty with a local car with the steering wheel on the right.
Actually IKEA technically is no longer Swedish. They officially moved their headquarters to the Netherlands and are now officially a Dutch company. But in heart they still are very Swedish. I cannot deny that.
They did for tax reasons?
@@Lilygirl283 I'd say that could be a safe assumption.
And SAAB is American and Volvo is Chinese...
If we follow that logic than A LOT of companies are really from Guerney and other tax havens.
Just because their HQ is in the Netherlands, doesn't mean it's Dutch. But that being said, they're registered as a non-profit (charity) in The Netherlands. Tax haven.
5:43 yes and fun fact, 50% of IKEA wooden furniture in the world is produced in Poland, so if you have something wooden from Ikea in the USA, there is a chance that it was made in Poland
Seems like 90% of future in Europe made in Poland 😁here in Estonia almost all furniture comes with instruction in polishing language 😅
With illegally logged wood from Romania...
Yeah because labor is cheaper in underdeveloped countries. There's a shitload of Polish people working here kn Belgium where their wage is enough for the entire family to live lavishly.
@@dennisengelen2517 underdeveloped? XD
I'm Ukrainian, been enjoying milk my entire life, turning 24 tomorrow and will probably celebrate it with a generous chug of milk! Pretty sure most people drink milk here, my grandparents did so well into their later years.
Have a happy birthday neighbor :)
I'm turning 43 this year and I could count on my hands the days I haven't drink milk :)
I was born in a medium size village in Romania and as a kid, I was drinking milk directly from the source(literally). All our neighbors had cows and I was always there when they were milking them.
My main meal in school was a 1L bottle of cocoa milk.
To this day, I buy 2L fresh milk every second day.
I really feel bad for those who can't enjoy milk or dairy foods.
Cheers.
What is normal for us can be poisonous for other people around the world. I had an american english teacher in highschool here in Romania who got sick and been in hospital after trying....smantana (or smetana,depending on what side of border you are,lol) spread on bread......wich is crazy. Also they can get sick from the carp eggs salad (i heard about some cases), so be careful what you put on the table to foreign visitors.
@@jzsf82milk directly from the cow, still warm, is one of the best things an human can enjoy...so an european😅. 35yo and drink milk instead of beers 😂.
@@mattlevuix8200 I think beer is even more European then milk or at the same level atleast for the Dutch and German
@@JR-mh8vn and Belgian . We small , but man, we drink a lot of beer 🍻
Here in the Netherlands we love milk, I remember as a kid they even handed out free milk in elementary schools (I think due to overproduction, or some type of health experiment (since it is still believed to be incredibly healthy to consume dairy here)) It is still part of our culture to consume a huge amount of cheese, milk, yoghurt etc. We consume so much dairy still.
I've heard/read some time ago that the left and right hand drive comes from when we used horses. Like the left hand side is from old when we used shields, and you usually hold the shield in right hand, so it's safest to stay on the left side of the road.
But with industrialization we started using carts with multiple horses. And alot of the industry carts had the horseman riding the horse and not the cart, and since you get up on the left side of the horse you would sit on the left horse and it's easer to navigate when you drive on the right side.
And as the video said, UK used the old rules, but France and central Europe used the newer right hand rules
Casu marzu is fantastic , we love it and worship it in Sardinia , in casu marzu we trust!
An another fact is France invented the metric system during the French Revolution and spread to Europe by Napoleon. And later by extension their colonies everywhere on the globe.
This is why the metric system used by all countries today except 3 countries.
The English since they cannot accept that the metric is better than their imperial kept their system.
Despite all, the English colonies and even partially UK later adopted the metric. Except the US for some reason.
Because the Americans, along with the imperial measurements, also inherited the arrogance from their erstwhile rulers.
You do know that was over 2000years ago, right?@Dreyno
Well Metric is common in Usa. In medicine, science and loads of other applications..
@@simonpowell2559 200 years, not 2000. And what of it? Two countries dripping in arrogance, one of which is the spawn of the other.
@@Dreyno ha ha. Yes thanks. Bloody auto fill. "erstwhile rulers" would that be an inch ruler or a centimetre ruler?
Fun fact: In Sweden they drove on the left hand side up until recently, in a historical sense.
I'm not sure, but I think they changed it to the right hand side of the road in 1967
As a european i was very surprised when i learned that Lactose intolerance was basically the norm worldwide xD
Yes, this is the excuse to fight the Milk production, pay attenction. I don't believe it
29:47 it's mostly because they stopped writing their information on tablets, as they had been doing, once they had started using paper, thus in fires and events, the paper obviously couldn't endure as well as the clay tablets had so the information was lost.
Paris metropololitan area has a population of around 10 millions. Paris proper, aka "Paris intra muros" after the last wall on which the ring freeway was build has, only 1.8-1.9 millions inhabitants.
Belgrade metropolitan 8 million. Paris is NOT that special
@@monicacarolina6480Paris Metropolis if you prefer. Metroplitan Frances has 68 millions pop.
Serbia has 7millions inhabitants, Belgrade and its suburbs only 1.6. 🤣 (Get your numbers right!)
Paris is NOT that special, London and Berlin metropolis are way bigger!
@@fredericlepeltier3435 nope: Berlin agglomeration : around 5 millions, London Around 14-15 millions, Paris 12 millions. Just talking about population ( not about what makes a city specail or not)
In Sweden, a right-hand traffic diversion was made in 1967. Before that, strangely enough, most cars were left-hand drive but drove in left-hand traffic, and many traffic accidents resulted.
I didn’t realise Vesuvius erupted in 1944.
Imagine 5 years into the biggest war u’ve even seen n u get hit by a volcano, ud think the gods r against u😂
Etna erupted in 2013 and Stromboli (another active volcano in Italy) erupted in 2019 😅 the gods might be preparing something
@@rimasto3692 also worth noting the Sundhnúkur eruptions in Iceland in 2023-2024 with last eruption being literally last month
that's what you get for siding with hitler
bonus fact: there isnt just cheese made by/with larvae in the EU, but there is also a cheese made with mites, stemming from germany.
apparently the procedure was nearly lost to history some 50 years back, according to the wikipedia article.
I never drink milk, excepted into café or hot chocolate. Bit in France we consumme huge amonts of chesse and other milk desserts like yogurts, creams, and such. I had never seen adults drinking milk.
Wanna say, just found you around the internet and I like your channel so much!! Im from Spain by the way so I like to see what an American thinks about the countrys around here. And also it's nice to see a Wagon fan in America ;)
19:03 shows one of my favourite streets in Moscow, Stoleshnikov Pereulok. I used to work in Moscow and before getting my own apartment I stayed at the Marriott Aurora, which is just left of that light blue "голубой" building.
French here. Went in Scotland around 2018, we rented a car in Edinburgh and drove across the country to go to Skye Island. Was pretty confusing at first ^^ But I got used to it in a couple of days.
13:08 Greenland is an autonomous region of the Kingdom of Denmark so it makes sense that they were in the EEC/EU
PS: Nevermind they said that later in the video.😅
and it is not in north america, i have icelandic citizenship and could see grenland from iceland coast lol.... no idea why he thinks grenland is in north america.. i went there with fairy or plane multipel times, even some inutis live in iceland who moved from grenland.. but maybe it is a fact that geographicaly it is more near the sea wich is north america geographicaly... both iceland and grenland parts of it are on north american tectonic plate and inutis who are natives to grenland are not europeans originaly, but north americans, so that could be the reason, when tectonic plate moved and split their parts still stayed on north american plate. so that could be the thing with north american thing..
I’ve seen quite a few Americans on RUclips and TikToks, saying they didn’t suffer with lactose intolerance drinking and eating milk and dairy products.while living in Europe.
I have too surely this is something that could be studied but the five mega corporations who monopolize thè US food industry will prevent it.
All jurisdictions in Australia abolished the death penalty by 1985. In 2010, the Australian government passed legislation that prohibited the reintroduction of capital punishment.
the (west)german constitution (Grundgesetz) always had one single very short paragraph about the death penalty : _"The death penalty has been abolished"_
and since it supersedes all other local constitutions of the _Bundesländer,_ it automatically was abolished everywhere, even though it took until the late nineties (or even later?) to also formally purge it from the last local constitutions (Bavaria in 1998? and Hessen in ???). they simply didn't bother of changing their constitutions since it was no valid paragraph anyway.
in (east)germany, it was abolished only as late as in 1987, and had been executed (edit: pun not intended) quite a few times during the decades after foundation of the GDR.
@@Anson_AKB The death penalty in Hessen was officially abolished in 2018 by a popular vote (I did my part for it lul)
The reason for the short flight time between Westray and Papa Westray is that it is part of a round trip flight that goes between Kirkwall on the mainland of Orkney and the two Westrays. The route provides a vital service for the people who live there so, although short, it's absolutely essential.
I still love the way you try to teach the Americans about different countries... ❤
There was a commercial some 30 years ago which features a boy Joris Driepinter. It says 3 glasses of milk a day keeps you healthy and strong. Also for adults.
In the 60-ties Sweden still used to drive on the left side. They changed that on 3 september 1967.
The milk thing may be one of the most shocking things on this list. I did not know that. I am from The Netherlands and I drink milk every single day. I also eat cheese, because Dutch cheese is very tasty 😂
I really wouldn't classify Dutch cheeses as "very tasty". In fact, of all the major cheese-producing countries, I'd say Dutch cheeses are the _mildest._ Which is a good thing for some people, of course (not everyone likes sharp / salty / spicy / mouldy cheeses).
yeah ikea is everywhere and is probably the most affordable furniture store in europe
Speaking of that Romanian Parliament Building - if anyone can provide Mr. Wroker with the TopGear episode where they are racing through the underground carpark of said building would be appreciated.
Also Mr. Wroker needs to react to the golden years of TopGear episodes anyways.
fun fact to nr 21, Hessen, in germany, TECHNICALLY still has the death penalty, since it was made 3 years or so before the " Deutsches Grundgesetz" but you cant be sentenced to death, since in the "Grundgesetz" it states that not only you cant be sentenced to death, but also that the grundgesetz is HIGHER then "federal state laws", such as hessens law.