1.Brazil
The world's widest road is the Monumental Axis in Brazil, where 160 cars can drive side by side.
2. Myanmar
Burmese people wear yellow paste on their faces which comes from tree bark. It protects against skin disease, helps keep your face young, and also serves as sun protection.
3. Haiti
The word for “violence” in Haitian Creole is the same as the word for the instrument the “violin.” Because of this, it is not a good idea to talk about conflict and violin music in the same conversation.
4. East Timor
It is said that the island of Timor was once a crocodile. It is still called Crocodile Island by some people.
5. Indonesia
Indonesia is home to some of the rarest creatures in the world, including tiny deer, fish that climb trees to catch insects and spiders that catch and eat small birds in giant webs.
6. Malaysia
In Malaysia, the bodies of sea cucumbers are dried and powdered and then made into face cream. Golden sea cucumbers are ground up and put in tea to drink for stomach problems.
7. Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea has over 850 languages and a population of just under 6 million. Evidence of agriculture in the country dates back to six and a half thousand years ago.
8. Philippines
In the Philippines, there is one live chicken for every Filipino. That is, the chicken population and the human population are the same. One Filipino man became internationally famous for eating 350 chilies in just 3 minutes!
9. Solomon Islands
An active underwater volcano named Kavachi is located in the Solomon Islands. The Islands are also home to megapodes which are birds that lay their eggs in volcanic sands and whose chicks can fly right after digging themselves out of the dirt.
10. Bangladesh
The largest mangrove forest in the world is located in Bangladesh. It is called Sundarban which means "beautiful jungle" in Bengali.
11. India
India has largest number of post offices in the world. The material used to build the Taj Mahal was brought in from various parts of India by a fleet of one thousand elephants.
12. Nepal
In Nepal, Saturday is the official weekly holiday. It is said that a snowman creature called the Yeti lives in the mountains and some people try to search for it. Only strange footprints have been found.
13. Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is the world’s largest tea exporter. To say hello or goodbye in Sri Lanka, you say “Ayubowan,” which means “May you live longer.”
14. Cameroon
In Cameroon, people sometimes eat plantains, bean cakes, and puff-puff for breakfast. Puff-puff is fried bread that is filled with air. Mount Cameroon is the country’s tallest mountain and every year hundreds of runners will race each other to the top of the mountain.
15. DR Congo
The Republic of Congo is about the size of Germany. It has the greatest number of thunderstorms in the world.
16. Liberia
Liberia means “land of the free.” Nelson Mandela was born in Liberia, and the country has had more female leaders than Norway, Sweden and South Korea combined.
17. Malawi
Malawi is known as the “Warm Heart of Africa.” Lake Malawi is also called the Lake of Stars because of the lights hung by fishermen on their boats. The fish are attracted to the lights, which when seen from a distance, look like stars in the sky.
18. Uganda
In Uganda, beer is made from mashed and fermented bananas. Some common snacks in Uganda include grasshoppers, termites, and sesame honey candy.
19. Japan
Some farmers in Japan grow their watermelons into a square shape in order to save storage space.
These are the countries that our participants will be from! So I decided to look up some interesting (and somewhat useless) trivia to look intelligent when they arrive. :) Hope it works!
