Europe is made up of around 50 sovereign countries at the moment. It covers nearly 4 million square miles and European society has mostly shaped the modern world thanks to its historical influence over every other region on the planet in the past 500 years or more. To put it bluntly, Europeans have had their fingers in a lot of pies for a long time. And with all that history there have been a lot of things going on that most of us didn’t even realize.
This is an encore of one of our previous lists, as presented by our YouTube host Simon Whistler. Read the full list!