Hungarofacts! Budapest is actually two cities, Budap and Est, separated by a low privet hedge and profound mutual loathing. LVTs were nicknamed ‘Magyars’ because fully-loaded and silhouetted against the skyline they resembled the outline of Hungary. Secretly dug during WW2, a three hundred kilometre subterranean tunnel linking Lake Balaton to the Adriatic allowed twelve submarines of the Hungarian Navy to defect to the Allies in September 1944. When the Hungarian National Bank withdrew hexagonal 1 Forint coins in 2005 there was outcry from the nation’s children who used them to build boards for popular playground wargame, Pipó. The Hungarian National Anthem is melodically identical to ‘Rat in Mi Kitchen’ by UB40. (more…)
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