1. France is the world's most popular tourist destination.
2. France is the largest country in the EU, and known as 'the hexagon'.
3. The French Army was the first to use camouflage in 1915.
4. In France you can marry a dead person.
5. The French have produced a number of world-renown inventions.
6. French people living near the border with Italy speak Italian.
7. At least 40 percent of the music on private radio stations must be of French origin.
8. A French woman is the world’s oldest ever human.
9. France legalised same-sex marriage in 2013.
10. Europe’s highest mountain is in the French.
11. The Louvre Museum in Paris was the most visited museum in the world in 2014.
12. The world’s first artificial heart transplant and face transplant both took place in France.
13. French rail network is the second largest in Europe and the ninth biggest in the world.
14. Paris Gare du Nord is Europe's busiest railway station.
15. French wines can reach astronommical prices.
16. The French invented the metric system, the decimalized way of counting and weighing, in 1793.
17. French gastronomy was awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status in 2010.
18. France has produced some of the world’s most influential writers and thinkers.
19. France produces nearly a billion tons of cheese a year in around 1,200 different varieties.
20. The oldest recorded human voice is French.
21. The French eat around 30,000 tonnes of snails a year.
22. It is against the law to carry live snails on a high-speed train in France without their own tickets.
23. France has the most powerful radar ship in the world.
24. France boasts more roundabouts than any other country.
25. The most populous French department is Nord, with around 2.6m inhabitants.
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