Top Ten Countries Tallest – Creative Facts that are Funny

No.1 – Netherlands

Standing head and shoulders above the rest are the Dutch. An average height of 6’0” makes them the tallest nation in the world.
No.2 – Sweden

Another Scandinavian nation standing tall on our list, young men in Sweden average a mammoth 5’11.5”. We don’t need to repeat the historical background to these guys; they too come from tall ancestors.
No.3 – Denmark

After revealing in the previous entry that Northern Europeans have been tall for centuries, it may come as no surprise to find another Germanic nation high up on this list of the world’s tallest countries. Among military conscripts, Danish men averaged an impressive 5’11.1” in 2006.
No.4 – Norway

Much like Finland and Estonia, the Norwegians are a tall bunch, averaging 5’10.7” as listed on military conscripts. Once again, this does not take into account older, and probably shorter, men; however, it does indicate that Norwegian men are increasing in stature.
No.5 – Estonia

Data for former Soviet Union countries is extremely patchy, and Estonia takes its place on this list by virtue of its paucity of data. Among its very young men, Estonians are a statuesque 5’10.5” on average.
No.6 – Finland

Another country that might not immediately spring to mind for its tall men, Finland claims its place with an average height of 5’10.2” among its men.
No.7 – Germany

The most recent census in Germany, from 2005, gave their men a very respectable average height of 5’10.1”, across the entire age range. Measurements taken from very young adults (18-19 years old) are even taller, suggesting that the Germans, like many nations, are continuing to push for the ionosphere.
No.8 – Greece

Not a nation that is immediately known for having tall men, but apparently Greece had us all fooled, (sky)scraping onto our top 10 tallest countries list with an average height of “just” 178.1 cm, or 5’10.1”.
No.9 – USA

Making it onto our top 10 with measurements taken from all ethnic backgrounds among men between the ages of 20-29, the male population of the United States had an average height of 5’9.9”.
No.10 – Australia

The latest government statistics covering all age ranges suggest that Australian men continue to grow taller, with an average height of 5’9.8”.

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As an ordinary person with an ordinary income and an ordinary life, we tend to hate the rich people – yes – we do. We can deny it all we want but every time we see those expensive private owned jets, or those never-ending new supply of the coolest electronic gadgets, or those holidays and weekends at gorgeous places – yes, we really hate them.
But what you may overlook is the fact that they are actually people. Breathing, living, crying, dying, getting sick people who just happen to have a lot of money and in some cases just do so well, they earn a lot of money. These piles of money they earn may seem so good, so alluring that we do not see the other side of being rich.

What we don’t realize:
1. Let’s not name names or hope to insult anyone, but there are numerous rich families who are actually miserable. They have money, yes, but because of their busy time and schedules, they lack time for their families, resulting in divorces, teenage pregnancies, teenage rebellions, family break ups, angry children and worst of all – suicide.
2. They’re not used to the other side of the world, the ordinary side of the world, so if they ever lose their money, they won’t know how to move around the world, they won’t know how to survive in the big, bad, dangerous world out there.
3. Which is why they have to work hard to keep earning, keep running their business and keep their head high even if this means losing their wives or husbands, their children maybe.
4. They have priority problems as well. Like us, they wonder where their future will bring them. They wonder who to put first, their children’s birthday party or that conference meeting involving all shareholders. They wonder if they only get movie offers because their parents are rich and they can finance the movie or if they have acting talents at all. They wonder if they are pretty enough to go outside or if what their kids will think when they see those never-ending gossip-sometimes-true rumors on the internet which leads to the 5th.
5. Last but definitely not least is, they don’t have privacy. Try going out and you have paparazzi clicking on your every move. Make one dumb move and the whole world’s talking.

The thing is, there’s no rich world, no ordinary world. There’s just one Earth we live in with different lives and with different statuses in life. If we choose to sit around and criticize those “lucky” rich people, then sure enough, you won’t get the chance to be one of them. Even the rich people now probably did something many years ago to earn big. I’m sure you’ve heard of William Colgate.

We want to be them. But we don’t have to be them. We can be like them in financial statuses, but I’m sure, every other part, we wouldn’t really want to experience.
Instead of wasting time hating them, why don’t we just work our way into our own life? And maybe – just maybe – when the time comes for us to rule, maybe we’d think of others and how they have less and find a way to help them. Then we’d finally see that sometimes not all of the rich people should be hated.