15 facts about Iceland, a country in which all citizens - relatives of Bjork Bashny.Net

Iceland has few inhabitants, so everything in it - the family! And yet there still believe in elves, with at the state level! Editorial admires this country a mystery, so we decided to put together a selection of interesting facts about it. < 1. Iceland is considered one of the most sparsely populated countries: the average density of its population is 3 persons per square kilometer. km. When parting couples trying to maintain friendly relations, as most friends and acquaintances are common.

2. Icelanders - centenarians. Life expectancy for women - 81 years for men - 76 years. By the age of 100-110 years, you are not particularly surprise anyone.

3. Icelanders - active users of the Internet and almost all countries registered on Facebook. And they have a national website Íslendingabók, where you can precisely track your family tree and find out how you come a distant relative of Bjork.

4. It is believed that Bjork translated from Icelandic means "birch", but this is not true. Sometimes Bjork - Bjork is just.

5. In Iceland, many believe in trolls that live outside of the Internet. Even paving the new highway, the designers always consult with experts on folklore to inadvertently affect habitats trolls.



6. Icelandic National clothes - wool sweaters. Wool local sheep unprecedentedly warm and soft, so it annually exports in large quantities.

7. Your favorite meal of tourists in Iceland - Hakarl little rotten shark meat. The taste of his terrible, but there is a fresh shark is not recommended because in this way it gives the meat and toxic ammonia. Yet here eating sheep thigh in lactic acid.

8. in Iceland is prohibited to import horses, and no one knows why. If the horse was taken from the island, then back to her, too, you can not go back.

9. As in Reykjavik all know each other, the doors of the houses here are often not locked, the keys to the cars thrown into the cars, and children in strollers are left unattended at the entrance to the cafe, bar or shop.

10. In Iceland, if the person you are well located, it demonstrates the fact that the matter touches you.





11. Iceland has no army, that is all. There is only the Coast Guard and the police, which did not issue firearms. And if it was the army, then she would not have issued a weapon.

12. Hot and cold water enters the Icelandic cranes directly from springs and geysers, which are thousands. It is so clear that it requires no filtration, but sometimes gives hydrogen sulfide - the only catch in this country.

13. Icelanders are sure to blow your nose - is harmful to health, so in winter everything dart noses, that is, sorry, draw a snot.

14. We Icelanders are no names, but only a middle name ending in "dottir" (daughter) or "son" (son). The name for the unborn child is necessary to choose from the register the names. If you come up with new, it must first be agreed with the authorities and to the registry.

15. In fact, in Iceland in the winter is not as cold as we used to think, then the temperature rarely drops below -6 degrees Celsius.

via factroom.ru