Things You'll Only See In Russia

Cleaning Up The Community on Subbotnik

Every year, Russians get together to help clean up their community. This happens in every city and town across the nation. They pick up garbage, fix broken furniture and objects, and take care of recycling. This day is called "Subbotnik" and it happens once a year.

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The More You Know

  • The average person living in Sweden eats about 22 pounds of chocolate a year.
  • Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
  • If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
  • The world's largest falafel weighed 223 pounds.
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