The life expectancy for an Italian is 82.03 years, with two major
exceptions: Mario and Luigi's lifespan depends on the prevalence of
Super Mushrooms, and is inversely correlated to the number of Goombas
and Hammer Bros.
Latvians are so generous, 67% of them figure, "Why wait for Christmas or
a birthday -- public officials deserve recognition year-round!" ...or
public officials are just really corrupt and require at least a bundt
cake to get any pot hole fixed.
93.4% of Lithuanians complete secondary school. In comparison, 93.4% of
Americans can't find Lithuania on a map. It's definitely somewhere in
Eastern Europe. Probably.
The average student in Luxembourg learns 2.5 foreign languages in
school, which is kinda weird, because what does half a language look
like… Esperanto? But by adulthood,
61% of the population can
speak three different foreign languages at a conversational level.
Here's the thing: the country has three official languages, and so much
money, Luxembourgers can afford to learn another language before they go
on vacation.
If your country had
a dog that looked like this
named
after it, you'd be pretty optimistic, too. In reality, though, Malta
has a kickass unemployment rate, which is less than half of any of its
Mediterranean neighbors.
Smoking is a gigantic public health problem in Europe, but fortunately,
30% of the Dutch have already quit smoking tobacco cigarettes. However,
there may be a thing or two still available to smoke in Amsterdam.
Poland produces more than 3 million tons of apples per year, but only about
900,000 tons of pork, so Poles are definitely going for seconds of applesauce with their dinner.