Luxembourg facts
While investigating facts about Luxembourg, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Luxembourg's gold medal at the 1952 Olympics was so unexpected that the organisers had neglected to give the band a score for their national anthem. The musicians "hurriedly improvised a tune which bore little resemblance to the Luxembourg anthem".
When Luxembourg was liberated from nazism in 1944, the returning government was so impressed with some regulations and laws concerning tax and employment the nazis had made, that it decided to simply keep them.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 50 of the best facts about Luxembourg I managed to collect.
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China's Government Debt is equivalent to $1326 per capita. The US's Government Debt is equivalent to $58,200 per capita and Luxembourg has debt equivalent to $6.9 million per capita
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Luxembourg is the second wealthiest country in the world (based on per capita GDP).
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In Luxembourg you must be trilingual (French, German, Luxembourgish) to graduate secondary school
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Except for the dutch all current european monarchs (Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK) are descendants of Queen Victoria and King Christian IX (Denmark). At the start of WW1 their grandchildren occupied the thrones of Germany, Russia, the UK and 5 other countries.
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The Queen Consort of Hungary in the 1400s, Elizabeth of Luxembourg, after being widowed, asked her chambermaid to steal the physical crown of Hungary, and the chambermaid wrote a book about the successful heist.
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If absolute primogeniture had applied from the very beginning of William the Conqueror's reign over England, the current monarch of England would, bizarrely enough, be Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg.
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One of the things that initiated the downfall of Harvard educated money launderer Franklin Jurado was his neighbor in Luxembourg filing a noise complaint against him, because Jurado had a money-counting machine running all night
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In 1944, a small militia of 30 men in Luxembourg defended a medieval castle successfully against the onslaught of 250 Waffen SS, killing 18 nazis and forcing the rest to retreat. The castle proved to be a useful Allied watchtower into German territory for months to come.
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There's a province in Belgium called Luxembourg which is almost twice the size of Luxembourg the country. (4,443 km2 vs 2,586.4 km2)
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More Portuguese live in Luxembourg than Germans, Belgians and French combined
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Luxembourg encompasses an area of 998 square miles.
Norway is the country with the highest productivity per hour worked, followed by Luxembourg and the US, with Bangladesh coming in last place - source
Liechtenstein has the third highest income per capita in the world following Qatar and Luxembourg.
Luxembourg is considered to be an extremely safe country and there are only two jails in the entire country.
Luxembourg was originally built as a fortress that grew into one of the greatest fortified sites in Europe. Luxembourg City was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of the old quarters and fortifications there.
Roughly 50% of the people that work in Luxembourg live in other countries including France, Belgium, and Germany.
Luxembourg City is the European Court of Justice's seat, which is the European Union's highest court of law in regards to EU issues.
Following World War II the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg gained its independence from the German Reich.
Luxembourg despite having a population of 600,000 people has won the Eurovision Song Contest 5 times. None of their winners were even born in the country.
There is no word for 'love' in the language of Luxembourg
