Things You Should Know - Episode XIV

Source: World Atlas

• Which is the only country
  in the world to be established as a result of a successful slave
  revolt? Haiti. Gaining its independence in 1804, Haiti was the first
  independent nation of Latin America and the Caribbean, the
  second republic in the Americas, and the only nation in the world
  established as a result of a successful slave revolt. Its successful
  revolution by slaves and free people of colour lasted
  nearly a decade; all the first leaders of government were former slaves.

• Honduras literally means ‘depths’
  in Spanish. 

• Indonesia’s national
  motto, ‘Bhinneka Tunggal Ika’ (‘Unity in Diversity’ literally, ‘many,
  yet one’), articulates the diversity that shapes the country.

• The name Malawi comes from
  the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the
  area. The country is also nicknamed ‘The Warm Heart of Africa’.

• The parliament of Finland
  is called Eduskunta.