Go For GOLD: Day 13 (NOW CLOSED)
Thu, 2012-08-09 08:27
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Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci named the area 'Veneziola' because it reminded him of Venice. It means 'little Venice'.
Venezuela , currency bolivar (B)
Venezuela has won more Miss World and Miss Universe titles than anywhere else in the world. It has received 5 Miss World, 6 Miss Universe, 6 Miss International and 1 Miss Earth titles
Venezuela had its fair share of incompetent rulers like Antonio Guzman Blanco who loved to pose for formal portraits and traveled so much to France that, at one point, he began ruling the country by telegram!
The most popular sport in Venezuela is Baseball, not Football
The fossils of a giant rodent were found in Venezuela in 2003 looked like a guinea pig but was the size of a buffalo
Fact: It is illegal to have sex with an idiot, in Valencia!
School children in Venezuela can chose between morning classes (7am—Noon) or afternoon classes (Noon – 5pm) . Older children can even chose night classes (5pm—10pm).
This country (Venezuela) had its first driver from the country to get a Formula 1 win this year, Pastor Maldonado for Williams.
Hot water heaters are not common at all, especially in poorer homes. Most Venezuelans take cold showers. BURRR COLD
The Angel Falls in Venezuela were named after an American pilot, Jimmy Angel, whose plane got stuck on top of the mountain while searching for gold
Venezuela is the country in the world with the highest amount of deaths due to Chicken Pox.
The flag belongs to Venezuela. Venezuelans have a very amusing way of pointing to objects by pouting their lips and lifting their chin, so don't assume that people are blowing kisses to you when you ask for directions!
Venezuelans attend a daily early morning church service before Christmas (between December 16th and 24th) called Misa de Aguinaldo ("Early Morning Mass.") In Caracas, the capital city, it is customary to roller-skate to this service.
In the remote jungles of Venezuela, among the indigenous Warao people living along the riverbanks of the Orinoco Delta, lives a slimy delicacy called the moriche worm. It’s a plump, thumb-sized slug with fangs that makes its home in the moriche palm tree. Dubbed the "tree of life," the moriche palm provides local communities with a variety of foods, including juice, fruit, pulp for bread and even edible beetle snacks. Squirming moriche worms are believed to be high in protein, a good dietary supplement — and nature’s Viagra.
The term Venezuela literally means ‘Little Venice’. The country was so named by its explorers, who saw houses built on stilts in a lake here, reminding them of Venice.
Venezuela plays host to Catatumbo lightning (named after its location - over the mouth of the Catatumbo river). It occurs through 'a mass of storm clouds creating a voltaic arc at more than 5 km of height, during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour'. It is thought to be 'the world's largest single generator of tropospheric ozone'. And it is 'estimated that there are 1,176,000 electrical discharges per year, with an intensity of up to 400,000 amperes, and that it can be seen from up to 400 km away'.
Flag relates to Venezuela and slavery was abolished here in 1854
the national bird of VENEZUELA is the Venezuelan Troupial, and they can boast 1,417 species of birds!
It's the Venezuelan flag. Angel Falls (the world's highest waterfalls) are in Venezuela and are named after an american pilot called Jimmy Angel.
More people in Venezuela use Twitter than Facebook! Approx 1 in 5 of the population tweet and their leader Hugo Chavez has more followers than The Whitehouse.
In the capital of Caracas the streets get blocked off on Christmas Eve so that people can rollerskate to church!
The city of Trujillo has also been called "Ciudad Portatil" (Portable City), for it has changed its location more than once in fourteen years.
In 2007 Venezuela set a world record for the largest pot of soup - 3,960 gallons! I think they have sadly now lost the title to The Netherlands...
Venezeula has the highest and longest cable car (Merida) world record
Venezuela has the highest murder rate of any country in the world, at an average of 14,000 per year! Long-dead criminals are revered and worshipped by certain cults and groups in the country. Might just change my holiday plans then...
Caracus (Capital of Venezuela) is known as the witch capital of the World
Venezuela's currency is the bolivar which is named after Simon Bolivar, the second president of Venezuela.
Venezuala has a total area of 916,445 square kilometres and a land area of 882,050 square kilometres , making it the 33rd largest country. :D
Venezuela holds the record for the most 'Miss World' titles