Top 10 Fun Facts.....The European Union

Hello there Gentle Readers wherever you are. You may have noticed a bit of a trend in the last few weeks. After a year of trying to avoid it my Brexit posts have been catching up with me.

Here is my top 10 fun facts about the EU.

1. Approximately 10% of all EU citizens were concieved  in an IKEA bed.

2. In Washington D.C. the embassies of Slovenia and Slovakia have a weekly meeting to exchange wrongly delivered mail.

3. Ireland joined the EU in 1973 but didnt have postcodes until 2015.

4. If all the Cadbury Creme eggs produced in a year were shared out equally among EU citizens, everybody would have 1.

5. Although within the EU, the Vatican cannot join because it is not a democracy.
Its a theocracy which makes God head of state and he cannot attend all the meetings.

6. The UK is the windiest country in the EU.

7. The widest waterfall (110m) is in Latvia. But its only 2m high.

8. The only EU patented smell is "Freshly cut grass" and is used to give Tennis balls their odour.


9. The EU parliamentary constituency of South West England includes Cornwall, Devon and Gibraltar.

10. In 2009 an EU law stating that dead livestock should be removed from fields was repealed because the vulture population of the EU was starving.

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