Paris syndrome is an unusual state exclusive to Japanese nationals who experience a mental breakdown while visiting Paris. Source: http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/rare-psych#14
Culture
Fact #589
If you show up to an ancient Greek site in high heels, you’ll have to tour barefoot. In order to preserve the sites, the government has banned shoes that could injure the monuments
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/laws-abroad_n_3466647.html
Fact #579
A man in Africa single handedly stopped the desertification of his region by reviving ancient farming and irrigation techniques despite being ridiculed by his community.
Source: http://www.odditycentral.com/news/meet-yacouba-sawadogo-the-man-who-stopped-the-desert.html
Fact #576
A Brazilian man called Xiahn, formerly known as max, was so obsessed with Korean culture that he underwent 10 operations to look Asian.
Fact #570
The chief translator for the European parliament, Ioannis Ikonomou, fluently speaks 32 languages.
Fact #551
An artist created a portrait of Jackie Chan using 64000 chopsticks for his 60th birthday.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/ohiseered
Fact #546
In 1471 a chicken in Basel, Switzerland, was found guilty of laying a brightly colored egg “in defiance of natural law”. It was burned at the stake as “a devil in disguise”.
Source: http://ingwer.ch/geo/ilg.html
Fact #545
Contrary to popular misconception, Nepal is the most open South Asian country for LGBT rights and legalised homosexuality all the way back in 2007!
Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/brunch-stories/a-queer-ban-in-india-gay-and- legal-in-nepal/article1-1171673.aspx
Fact #536
Six-inch-high heels were worn by the upper classes in seventeenth-century Europe. Two servants, one on either side, were needed to hold up the person wearing the high heels.
Source: https://casualmaxx.wordpress.com/2010/06/26/100-shoes-facts/
Fact #492
In Mohave County, Arizona, if anyone is caught stealing soap, he must wash himself with it until the soap is gone.
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