Switzerland Facts

It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland!

In Lucerne, Switzerland, you can hire an evil clown to stalk your child for a week before their birthday, and on that day, he will smash a cake into your child’s face.

Benito Mussolini fled to Switzerland in 1902 to avoid Italian military service, where he lived as a vagrant and was arrested multiple times before being expelled from the country.

There's a company in Switzerland called Algordanza that will turn your ashes into a diamond for your family.

Switzerland has the highest per-capita consumption of soft drinks in the world.

Last 2 European countries to let women vote: Switzerland (1971) and Leichtenstein (1984).

In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig, because they are prone to loneliness.

A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.

Under the Matterhorn, a glacier has been quietly moving the Italy-Switzerland border. The Theodul Glacier lost nearly a quarter of its mass in just 37 years. The melting shifted the watershed - and the frontier - further into Italian territory. In 2024, Switzerland approved a plan to redraw roughly 100 meters of their shared border. A melting glacier moved a national border.