A few fun facts about different countries and the world. For example who owns the world's land? Which languages do tourists speak and do they match with the languages that are spoken in countries they visit? How many tweets are posted each day and who reads them? All those and more questions are answered in this tiny little set of slides. For fun purposes.

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Do the tourists actually understand the
people in the countries they are visiting?

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Did you know that among the most often
used English words….
• “I”(12th) scores higher than “you”(14th)
• “He” (15th) and even “they” (25th) score higher than “she” (28th) and
also than “we” (32th)
• “the”(1st) is more often used than “a” (5th)
• “do” (18th) scores much higher than “make” (46th)
• “because” (96th) scores higher than “why” (>100th)
• With the top 100 English words you can write “I have this.” or “My
time has come” but not “I love you.”

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Did you ever think about who really owns the land
that your house is built on? It may be the queen…

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Alcohol and drugs
• In England children aged 5 are allowed to drink beer (in private)
however it is forbidden to drink alcohol in a pub before the age of 18
• On 90% of the US American bills traces of cocaine can be found
• The price of cocaine in Europe dropped 51% since the 1990s
• How will that affect the contamination of Euro bills?

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Swedish became the official language of
Sweden only in 2009
• This was to strengthen the status of the language in comparison
mainly with English (86% of the Swedish population are English
speakers)
• While foreign English speakers have no trouble to get along in
Sweden, Swedes are among the most welcomed people around the
globe as well. A holder of a Swedish passport can travel to 173
countries without having to apply for a visa. This is only reached by
citizens of the UK and Finland
• And also internally Sweden is open to it’s people. The official Twitter
account is managed by a different (random) citizen every week

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Concerning Twitter
• Besides the Swedish tweets there are around 200 million Tweets
posted every day
• One of the biggest and most reliable follower is the CIA. Employees in
their offices are estimated to read around 5 million Tweets daily (for
work)
• Twitter is banned in China. Imagine how a legalization there would
affect the global amount of Tweets per day

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