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RANDOM FACTS ABOUT GREECE:
1. WITH AN AREA OF 50,949 SQUARE MILES (131,958 SQUARE KILOMETERS) GREECE IS ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF ALABAMA. THE POPULATION IS MORE THAN 10 MILLION PEOPLE.
2. APPROXIMATELY 16.5 MILLION TOURISTS VISIT GREECE EACH YEAR, MORE THAN THE COUNTRY'S OWN POPULATION, TOURISM CONSTITUTES NEARLY 16% OF THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP)
3. NO ONE IN GREECE CAN CHOOSE NOT TO VOTE, VOTING IS REQUIRED BY LAW FOR EVERY CITIZEN WHO IS 18 YEARS OR OLDER.
4. ABOUT 7% OF ALL THE MARBLE PRODUCED IN THE WORLD COMES FROM GREECE.
5. GREECE HAS MORE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS THAN MOST COUNTRIES BECAUSE SO MANY FOREIGN TOURISTS WANT TO VISIT.
6. THE WORLD'S THIRD LEADING PRODUCER OF OLIVES THE GREEKS HAVE CULTIVATED OLIVE TREES SINCE ANCIENT TIMES. SOME OLIVE TREES PLANTED IN THE THIRTENTH CENTURY ARE STILL PRODUCING OLIVES.
7. ACCORDING TO GREEK MYTHOLOGY, ATHENA AND POSEIDON AGREED THAT WHOEVER GAVE THE CITY THE BEST GIFT WOULD BECOME GUARDIAN OF THE CITY. THOUGH POSEIDON GAVE THE GIFT OF WATER, ATHENAS GIFT OF AN OLIVE TREE WAS DEEMED BY THE OTHER GODS TO BE MORE VALUABLE.
8. GREECE HAS ZERO NAVIGABLE RIVERS BECAUSE OF THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN.
9. APPROXIMATELY 98% OF THE PEOPLE IN GREECE ARE ETHNIC GREEKS. TURKS FORM THE LARGEST MINORITY GROUP.
10. ABOUT 12 MILLION PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD SPEAK GREEK. THEY LIVE MOSTLY IN GREECE, CYPRUS, ITALY, ALBANIA, TURKEY, THE UNITED STATES, AMONG OTHER COUNTRIES.
1. WITH AN AREA OF 50,949 SQUARE MILES (131,958 SQUARE KILOMETERS) GREECE IS ROUGHLY THE SIZE OF ALABAMA. THE POPULATION IS MORE THAN 10 MILLION PEOPLE.
2. APPROXIMATELY 16.5 MILLION TOURISTS VISIT GREECE EACH YEAR, MORE THAN THE COUNTRY'S OWN POPULATION, TOURISM CONSTITUTES NEARLY 16% OF THE GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT (GDP)
3. NO ONE IN GREECE CAN CHOOSE NOT TO VOTE, VOTING IS REQUIRED BY LAW FOR EVERY CITIZEN WHO IS 18 YEARS OR OLDER.
4. ABOUT 7% OF ALL THE MARBLE PRODUCED IN THE WORLD COMES FROM GREECE.
5. GREECE HAS MORE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS THAN MOST COUNTRIES BECAUSE SO MANY FOREIGN TOURISTS WANT TO VISIT.
6. THE WORLD'S THIRD LEADING PRODUCER OF OLIVES THE GREEKS HAVE CULTIVATED OLIVE TREES SINCE ANCIENT TIMES. SOME OLIVE TREES PLANTED IN THE THIRTENTH CENTURY ARE STILL PRODUCING OLIVES.
7. ACCORDING TO GREEK MYTHOLOGY, ATHENA AND POSEIDON AGREED THAT WHOEVER GAVE THE CITY THE BEST GIFT WOULD BECOME GUARDIAN OF THE CITY. THOUGH POSEIDON GAVE THE GIFT OF WATER, ATHENAS GIFT OF AN OLIVE TREE WAS DEEMED BY THE OTHER GODS TO BE MORE VALUABLE.
8. GREECE HAS ZERO NAVIGABLE RIVERS BECAUSE OF THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN.
9. APPROXIMATELY 98% OF THE PEOPLE IN GREECE ARE ETHNIC GREEKS. TURKS FORM THE LARGEST MINORITY GROUP.
10. ABOUT 12 MILLION PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD SPEAK GREEK. THEY LIVE MOSTLY IN GREECE, CYPRUS, ITALY, ALBANIA, TURKEY, THE UNITED STATES, AMONG OTHER COUNTRIES.
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MOVIES TO WATCH:
1. Jason AND THE ARGONAUTS (1963)
2. 300 (2006)
3. CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981)
4. CLASH OF THE TITANS (2010)
5. THE TROJAN WOMEN (1971)
6. IMMORTALS (2011)
7. ALEXANDER (2004)
8. ALEXANDER THE GREAT (1956)
9. MEDEA (1969)
10. HERCULES UNCHAINED (1959)
11. TROY (2004)
12. HERCULES (2014)