Wild Fact

New Zealand is also home to the world’s only flightless parrot, the Kakapo.

New Zealand Fact 

New Zealand won the first ever Rugby World Cup, held in 1987.

UK Facts

The English drink more tea than anyone else in the world.

Interesting Fact about Germany

The Cologne Cathedral took 632 years to build. (Bill Bryson in Neither Here Nor There (p. 88) wrote: “It is absolutely immense, over 500 feet long and more than 200 feet wide…It can hold 40,000 people. You can understand why it took 700 years to build – and that was with German workers. In Britain they would still be digging the foundations.”)

UK Interesting Fact

London has the credit for the first hot chocolate store ever opened.

Canada Fact

The Blackberry Smartphone was developed in Ontario, at Research In Motion’s Waterloo offices.

Interesting Fact

Sir Edmund Hillary, the first person to climb Mount Everest in 1953, was a New Zealander

Fun Fact

LEGO was invented in Denmark. Legoland and the company headquarters are located in Billund, on the Jutland peninsula.

Interesting Fact

There are over 300 kinds of bread in Germany.There are also bread museums.