In a head to head competition, Portugal just barely beats out France as Europe’s leading consumer of alcohol per capita, at 11.1 gallons of pure alcohol per person per year. France has just barely fallen behind, but it’s hard to tell by how much on the graph.
France has an edge when comparing major races with “Tour” and “France” in the title, but the “Volta a Portugal” is no weekend bike ride. It’s a multi stage race over two weeks that would attract some of the biggest names in cycling if it weren’t held immediately after the Tour de France and before the Vuelta a Espana.
It’s hard to get an accurate count on the number of Guinness World Records each country holds, but Portugal gets the award for the most recent record. In an inspiring display of patriotism and free-time, they brought together 18,788 people on a football field to create the Largest Human National Flag.
France however, reported the world’s longest traffic jam in February of 1980, which stretched 176 km (109 miles) from Lyon towards Paris.
France also boasts the world’s oldest portrait of a human face, a cave painting discovered by a potholer in the West of France. But based on the picture at the bottom of the article, it may also be the oldest portrait of a bird or the earliest swimming pool design.
Not to be outdone, Portugal boasts the Whistler tree, the world’s largest cork tree. Harvested every nine years, the tree produces enough cork to plug 100,000 bottles and during its next harvest, in 2009, the tree will produce its one millionth cork. Insert your own Cristiano Ronaldo ‘put a cork in it’ joke here.
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