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Old Town of Tallinn in Estonia

Some interesting facts about Estonia...

 

•Tallinn, is one of the best-preserved mediaeval cities. The Historic Centre (Old Town) of Tallinn is listed in the UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage List. It’s one of the prettiest towns I’ve seen.

 

•Out of the nearly 200 countries in the world, Estonia ranks number two in adult literacy with its rate of 99.8 percent.

 

•Would any one guess that the world communication phenomenon Skype came from Estonia?

 

•Also Estonia is the country where Kazaa and FastTrack were originally created and developed by Estonian programmers from BlueMoon Interactive.

 

•The world’s best Irish coffee is prepared by the Estonian Helger Aava; in June 2007 he won the first place at the World Barista Championship in Belgium.

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