Can you give me any random fun facts about France?

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simon e

About 650 people a year end up going to the hospital after sliping on dog doo.

There are more dogs the kids

when the Eiffel tower was first built, everybody hated it

When Asian people go to France they often freeze or faint in shock of the rudeness of the country

The most popular TV show is watched by all ages and is the news reported by puppets

the French are so proud of being French that they are insulated when you speak in English to them

comes in second place for being the most popular place to come for honeymoons

Mickey mouse is the most popular cartoon character in France.

most perfumes are made of Daisie flowers

France is popular for wine from there many fresh vineyards

monkmonk11

There are really nice markets in southern france. they speak german in the part closest to germany. Wine is free with most meals.

Rillifane

1. Although DeGaulle once said "Comment voulez-vous gouverner un pays qui a deux cent quarante-six variÃ©tÃ©s de fromage?" ("How can you govern a country which has two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?") there are now over a thousand types of cheese made in France.

2. The word "hÃ´tel" in French refers to any large building rather than just a place that rents rooms. So "City Hall" in French is "hÃ´tel de ville" which has led some tourists to try and check in.

3. The melody of the Elvis Presley hit "Can't help Falling in Love" is actually "Plaisir dâ€™Amourâ€, a classical French love song that is about two centuries old.

J'adore Paris

The Eiffel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets, it weighs 10,100 tons and it is 324 meters high

kpaso619b

paris is the " city of love"

gogol

French frogs are grown in Israel -

Goose liver comes from Hungary -

There are yearly races of snails -

French frites are belgian

French letter is a "capote anglaise"

Cor anglais is a french horn

Horny french are not all hard core

French lovers are italian

And italian lovers are queers invading Paris in quest of french lovers

"My taylor is rich" is the first thing you learnt in the old Assimil language method

"Your flowers are beautiful" the second one

Both sentences are the best thing to trigger laughing-storms at the end of french highly alcoholized family meals

Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ? is clueless - ask in the metro and you'll see by yourself - immersion.......

Education anglaise - doesn't mean english education

That's all folks -

Any goofie having information about Stephane M should restrain giving it to the FBI -

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if you have ever heard asterix, you would know that the chief is vercingetorix. the chief of the people who used to live in Paris was also called Vercingetorix.

Francoise

Every Wednesday in France, war alarm is sounded as a practise or rehearsal. If an alarm sounds on a day other than Wednesday, that means France is in war at that moment on.

Belch is considered to be extremely rude. Don't ever belch in front of any French. The French prefer you to fart than belch.

In French new year's time, there is this cake called galette de Rois which is a cake made of puff pastry, flour, egg, rum and almond powder. A small plastic animal or little toy is hidden in each cake. When family members share the cake, whoever finds the little animal in his or her slice of cake is the lucky one.

Tour Eiffel used to be a tower which you could just climb up and leaned over to watch the whole Paris. But then many people committed suicide by just jumping over the tower, especially after the death of the famous French singer Claude Francoise. Thus they started to build all fences and bars over the tower to avoid such incidents happen again.

French singer, Claude Francoise (1939-1978) was the original singer of Comme l'habitude ( My way in English version). This song is believed to be an unlucky one, whoever sings it will end up in an accidental death. Claude himself was electrocuted to death when changing a light bulb standing in his bathtub.

During daytime, French radio are allowed to play one English song among 5 French song. This was due to DJs played English songs all day long before the enforcement of the law, thus neglecting French music and artists.

Angie's Husband

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