The Grand Teutons were named by a group of French explorers. Teutons means in French 'tits', there are three mountains in the teutons.
Finland was the first country in the world to give women voting rights.
Finland is one of the few countires that openly admits helping the Germans during the second World War.
Härmä, a county of 20 000 in Finland, is reknowned for exporting around the world only two things, criminals and mercenaries.
Yppäri a small village of only a hundred. When people moved at the end of the 19th century to the U.S. a common shout when coming to the docks in New York was, "are there any Yppäri's here?" There always were.
During the last part of the 19th century and the beggining of the 20th, large amount of Chinese were in forced labour camps in Finland, building Russian defences.
During the second world war a soldier was admitted to hospital with back pains. On closer inspection, a 81mm mortar was dicovered in his back.
"Dora" was the worlds largest cannon in the world. The artillery shell was over three meters long. It took at the minimum of 15 minutes to load. Originally designed against maginot line, this behemoth was later used on the eastern front. It has been estimated that the cost of that single cannon was on par with two panzer divisions.
The German stuka plane's name comes from the Russian word meaning "thing"
The word Bistro comes from Russian, meaning quickly.
The fortune cookie was invented by a San Fransiscan Chinese Restraunt owner.
Colonel Saunders of KFC, is a fictional character.
The words iron and irony come from two different etymological roots.
