4.  Mark Zuckerberg ,who created today’s
most internationally used Facebook
, has a Bulgarian origin and he is named
after his Bulgarian grandfather - Marko.

5.  On 24th August 2007 the Bulgarian swimmer
Petar Stoychev made a world record
swimming through the La Manche for less
than 7 hours!

7.  The world’s oldest gold treasure, bearing regal marks and
dating back more than 6,000 years, was discovered in
Bulgaria, the city of Varna.

10.  Bulgarian yogurt has a
unique taste because the
bacteria used to make
it, Lactobacillus
bulgaricus, is only found
naturally in Bulgarian air.
(Other countries import
it, though, so that they
can make their own
yogurt.)

12.  There are more than 1600
thermal mineral springs on
the territory of Bulgaria the
hottest one -103.8 degrees is
claimed to be the hottest in
Europe!

14. And…as there are two sides of the same coin, I should
mention a few bad statistics..

16. Women and people smoke a LOT- second, after Greece.

17. Bulgaria is one of
the countries in the
world suffering
from negative
population growth.
From having 9
million inhabitants
in 1988, Bulgaria
has just around 7
million people
today.

18. Foreigners say we have Bad
medical system (the worst in
the EU)... Rakia is the solution
for everything.