Some Weird Facts About Switzerland?

[shaan888]

please provide some first hand information about some of the most fascinating facts about Switzerland. thank you :)

[OldBather]

Swiss women did not get the vote until 1971,and it was 1991 before the last canton (county) of Switzerland(Appenzell Innerrhoden) legalised theirs.

[mikey4444]

Its quite hilly !

The trains run on time.

The whole country is spotlessly clean.

[DTCwordfan]

Because it is so mountaineous, Swiss people have longer right legs than left ones, this means it is easier for them to walk around the hills as long as they go anti-clockwise.

[douglas9401]

The apprenticeship for cheese-holer is seven years but guarantees a job for life.
There are many Nazis.
Contrary to popular belief, the hills are NOT alive with music.

[DTCwordfan]

Edelweiss is a white Swiss wine.

[bhg481]

Signposts on walking routes give distances in hours and minutes, not Km.

[DTCwordfan]

The Swiss are Germans without a sense of humour.

Berne was the home of Bernie Inns.

[chiaroscuro]

Everybody is armed against invasion - hence nuns with guns.

[douglas9401]

They have the most Hell's Angels per square mile in the world.

Figures for per square kilometre are a closely guarded secret.

[DTCwordfan]

There are more bulldozers in Switzerland per 1000 of population than any other country in the world. It may explain why Rock or Rocky is a such a popular name.

[DTCwordfan]

The majority of Swiss people like to breed in twins (wit Roger Federer). This is more efficient both in terms of the individual and the hospitals as well as that they like to have one French-speaking child and one German-speaking.

[Cloverjo]

Federer could have the full set of official languages covered with his second set of twins speaking Italian and Romansch between them. :)

[mikey4444]

By the way, I forgot something very important....Switzerland is the most beautiful country that I have ever visited.

I first went there on a school trip, at Easter 1965, and it was love at first sight. We stayed in a little place called Spiez, on Lake Thun, and visited the very top of the Jungfraujock.

Unforgettable !

[douglas9401]

Legend has it that the Swiss air (not to be confused with Swissair) does strange things to the mind.
In the 1960s, for example, people would visit, call it unforgettable then forget.

[Zacs-Master]

Every Toblerone ever made has to be flown to Switzerland to be authenticated.

[DTCwordfan]

The Swiss invented diamonds.

[Tilly2]

The cows are very pretty and they do wear bells around their necks.

[Zacs-Master]

^^^^which is why their watches are so accurate. That, and the fact that all Swiss timepieces are made on the top of mountains where the air inside them is more pure, of course.

[Peter Pedant]

// The Swiss are Germans without a sense of humour. //

best one liner for DTC

only technological innovation is - the cuckoo clock ?

three recognised languages ( yup a trilingual gondree folks )
there are some italian cantons ( give you an idee for the third language) [ cue zither music ]

[Peter Pedant]

// Berne was the home of Bernie Inns//

and when they expanded internationally the swiss ran thro the streets shouting - Bernie Out !